Aw: Re: AW: Status update - version 5.2.2, cvs->git conversion, plans

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

> > What I have been trying to do is to manually add author changes to the Eric
> > Raymond's reconvert script.  The example command given was:
> >   <es...@th...!2017-11-04T16:44:25> setfield author "Frd J. Foonly
> > <fr...@fo...>"
> > (which according to the docs probably should instead be
> > <2017-11-04T16:44:25! es...@th...> setfield author "Frd J. Foonly
> > <fr...@fo...>"
> > 
> > Unfortunately, such commands do not "find" the entry, not even with the tip
> > version of reposurgeon.
> > So I am kind of stuck for the moment.
> 
> There can't be a space in the search field <2017-11-04T16:44:25! 
> es...@th...>  I'm assuming you don't have any in what you are 
> searching for.

Sure. No spaces.

> 
> You are likely running into what I ran into with experimenting with 
> tags, the time-zone factor.  You must specify the exact time in the 
> search field <>, but often git displays some kind of time zone-adjusted. 
>   So I had to do trial and error shifting by 7 hours to put times in 
> GMT, e.g., <2013-04-11T20:04:07Z>.  (Note the added Z...search Zulu time 
> in Wikipedia:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone
> 
> )
> 
> For example, doing the git log as you suggested, I see a time
> 
> 2000-10-20T20:01:32+01:00
> 
> which would be
> 
> 2000-10-20T20:01:32Z
> 
> I think.  Anyway, I used git times from qgit that didn't have that extra 
> UTC offset value so I often had to compute the proper UTC time and 
> rarely got it right on the first try.
> 
> Dan

That did the trick! You just have to subtract the time offset to get the "Zulu" time.
Thanks for the pointer.  I thought I had tried that before though....

   Bastian