Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:06:15 -0400
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> > I'm not sure having hyperlinks justifies the trouble of having to
> > concoct those stamps.  In a repository such as we have in Emacs, a
> > time stamp should allow you to find the commit fairly easily, I think.
> 
> While this is true, experience leads me to fear a proliferation of
> varying and damaged timestamp formats uttered by people in a hurry.

I think generating the RFC3339 time stamps is more error-prone than
the "normal" date/time, especially if you copy/paste the latter from
the Git log.