[Bug 121313] Re: bzr info shows me times in unuseful timezones

[Martin Pool]

On 6/21/07, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 08:48 +0000, Steve Alexander wrote:
> > Martin said "we normally show times in the time they originated".  Why?
> >
> > I'd think a more useful policy would be "we normally show times in the
> > timezone of the user requesting the information".  This is better for
> > two reasons.
> >
> > 1. The information is more familiar to the user requesting the information
> > 2. It avoids the problem of two pieces of comparable information (like the time of two consecutive commits) being presented in different timezones, and thus harder to understand.
> >
> > The only downside of this is when the user requesting the information
> > wants to know what time of day it was locally to the committer.  Why
> > would I care whether a New Zealander is making a commit in the morning
> > or at night?
> >
> > So, I propose that the UI guideline for bazaar be "We normally show
> > times in the timezone of the user requesting the information."
>
> This makes sense to me; evolution does the same thing.
>
> Anyone object to this conceptual change - if not we should document the
> policy in HACKING, and do a quick check for places to fix and file bugs
> related to that.

No objection to changing that policy, though I don't see it as a super
high priority.  I would kind of like if the code changes can factor
out this general concept of displaying in a timezone that's controlled
by --timezone so it's consistent across log, info and whatever.

-- 
Martin