On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:37:05AM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > > I have a cvs server running in a chroot, and it appears that I just
> > > can't get it to use the right timezone.  Any file committed gets a
> > > timestamp in UTC.  I've set /chroot/etc/localtime correctly, and if I
> > > chroot into the chroot, it does give me the correct date.
> > 
> > The timestamps (and all other times) _always_ are in UTC (assuming you
> > have set the time correctly).  The timezone only affects the routines
> > which convert time to human-readable form (and vice-versa).
> 
> That's what I assumed.  But I had thought that the $Id: $ tag would be
> represented in localtime.  Thinking about this, that doesn't seem to
> make much sense, or maybe I'm just confused.  Probably the latter. ;-)

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You should also read about the -z switch of ci(1).



Cheers,
Andreas

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