# HG changeset patch # User Martin Geisler # Date 1301990659 -7200 # Node ID 0a0988bd4818e78cae4573a39519ba5ee87be89a # Parent e33ebe67657a481fd0c0f53ea929aa41925fd972 help/dates: rephrase explanation of internal format The old explanation referred to the two numbers as "unixtime" and "offset" without really defining those terms. diff -r e33ebe67657a -r 0a0988bd4818 mercurial/help/dates.txt --- a/mercurial/help/dates.txt Sun Apr 03 23:47:17 2011 +0900 +++ b/mercurial/help/dates.txt Tue Apr 05 10:04:19 2011 +0200 @@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ - ``1165432709 0`` (Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 UTC) -This is the internal representation format for dates. unixtime is the -number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). offset is -the offset of the local timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative if -the timezone is east of UTC). +This is the internal representation format for dates. The first number +is the number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). The +second is the offset of the local timezone, in seconds west of UTC +(negative if the timezone is east of UTC). The log command also accepts date ranges: