[RPM Spec] Shall we use Local time or UTC for %changelog date?

Ding Yi Chen dchen at redhat.com
Fri Jul 22 06:46:48 UTC 2011


Hi list,
I recently ran into an interesting problem related to time zone.

I live in time zone GMT+10.
On 0:10, 18th July, 
I wrote my changelog as:
* Mon Jul 18 2011 ......
....

And then run rpmlint, which give me:
<packageName>: E: changelog-time-in-future 2011-07-18

So I am wondering which one I should use: local time or convert it to UTC?

Regards,

-- 
Ding-Yi Chen
Software Engineer
Internationalization Group
Red Hat, Inc.

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