Review of Chapter 2: Basic Usage
C. Michael Pilato
cmpilato at red-bean.com
Fri Feb 23 10:04:53 CST 2007
David Summers wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>
>> OFF-TOPIC:
>>
>> $ svn list --verbose http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn
>> 20620 harry 1084 Jul 13 2006 README
>> 23339 harry Feb 04 01:40 branches/
>> 21282 sally Aug 27 09:41 developer-resources/
>> 23198 harry Jan 23 17:17 tags/
>> 23351 sally Feb 05 13:26 trunk/
>>
>> Do we know why sometimes a year is printed, and sometimes a timestamp is
>> printed? I would have guessed "any time the date is not in the current
>> year, a year is printed" but that doesn't appear to be true.
>>
>
> I believe the normal rule is that if the date is 6 months or greater in
> the past it is shown as the year. Any time sooner than that is shown
> with the date and time and not the year.
How ... interesting. And arbitrary. And unintuitive. I'm almost sorry I
asked. :-)
--
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com>
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has
been found difficult; and left untried." -- G. K. Chesterton
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