[issue1904] Wish for timezone support for hg ci -d date

[Martin Geisler]

New submission from Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net>:

This bug was reported to Debian's bugtracker:

  http://bugs.debian.org/485890

From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck at gmail.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Wish for timezone support for hg ci -d date
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:20:44 +1000

Package: mercurial
Version: 1.0.1-1
Severity: wishlist

When attempting to manually create backdated patches (in order to
migrate a Darcs2 repo to hg), I find that the date format emitted by
"darcs changes" was not supported, e.g.

    $ hg ci -d 'Sat Apr 26 16:33:35 EST 2008'
    abort: invalid date: 'Sat Apr 26 16:33:35 EST 2008'

This also appears to be the format emitted by "date" when called
without arguments in my current locale (LANG=en_AU.utf8).