Re: [PATCH 4.19 00/93] 4.19.81-stable review

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, 2019-11-06 at 21:18 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 07:59:32PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
[...]
> > I'm confused. You said "by Tue ... 08:27:02 PM UTC". That 8 PM is 20h,
> > but did the release on 10h GMT+1, or 9h UTC -- 9 AM.... so like 11
> > hours early, if I got the timezones right.
> > 
> > Does PM mean something else in the above context?
> 
> Ugh, no, you are right, I was ignoring the PM thing, I thought the -u
> option to date would give me a 24 hour date string, and so I thought
> that was 8:27 in the morning.
> 
> Let me mess around with 'date' to see if I can come up with a better
> string to use here.  I guess:
> 	date --rfc-3339=seconds -u
> would probably be best?

The --rfc-822 option should give you something close to the current
format, but with 24-hour numbering.

Ben.

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