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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc/cvsclient.texi b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc/cvsclient.texi index 56577c29e2b..3b4ab41142f 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc/cvsclient.texi +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc/cvsclient.texi @@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ General protocol conventions: * Filenames:: Conventions regarding filenames * File transmissions:: How file contents are transmitted * Strings:: Strings in various requests and responses +* Dates:: Times and dates The protocol itself: @@ -468,6 +469,32 @@ existing practice is probably to just transmit whatever the user specifies, and hope that everyone involved agrees which character set is in use, or sticks to a common subset. +@node Dates +@section Dates + +The protocol contains times and dates in various places. + +For the @samp{-D} option to the @code{annotate}, @code{co}, @code{diff}, +@code{export}, @code{history}, @code{rdiff}, @code{rtag}, @code{tag}, +and @code{update} requests, the server should support two formats: + +@example +26 May 1997 13:01:40 GMT ; @r{RFC 822 as modified by RFC 1123} +5/26/1997 13:01:40 GMT ; @r{traditional} +@end example + +The former format is preferred; the latter however is sent by the CVS +command line client (versions 1.5 through at least 1.9). + +For the @samp{-d} option to the @code{log} request, servers should at +least support RFC 822/1123 format. Clients are encouraged to use this +format too (traditionally the command line CVS client has just passed +along the date format specified by the user, however). + +For @code{Mod-time}, see the description of that response. + +For @code{Notify}, see the description of that request. + @node Request intro @section Request intro |