niceDate uses localtime causing churn between developers

[cookpete]

niceDate uses localtime causing churn between developers

[edmorley]

The fix seems to be to change getDate() and friends to the UTC equivalents (getUTCDate() etc) - that is presuming people are fine with all dates being UTC.

[cookpete]

This was pointed out by @a-ignatov-parc in #35. However, wouldn't changing to use UTC mean a user in the the US evening could generate a changelog with a release date of the next day? Seems a bit strange, but maybe it's less weird than the problem you describe.

[cookpete]

Perhaps the best solution is to add a --timezone option but default to UTC.

[eliperelman]

Another solution would be to not format the date at all, but show an ISO-8601 string.

[cookpete]

Another solution would be to not format the date at all, but show an ISO-8601 string.

We would have the same problem with possible "releases from the future" even with ISO strings, for people who don't understand what is going on.

I think the solution is to use UTC dates for now, like @a-ignatov-parc originally suggested, and if there is enough demand from non-UTC users who are seeing weird dates, I'll look at adding a --timezone or --local-date option.

[edmorley]

Many thanks :-)