comparing dates in a mercurial hook

[Haszlakiewicz, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Mackall [mailto:mpm at selenic.com]
> 
> A datetime is presumably a number in seconds since (the local) UNIX
> epoch. Mercurial dates are all of the form:
> 
>  (seconds since epoch in GMT, seconds offset from GMT)
> 
> so this comparison won't work. You should instead use
> util.matchdate("-180").

Here's my final, actual working code to check for old changesets, for anyone else that needs an example:

from mercurial import ui, util
def myhook(ui, repo, rev):
    ctx = repo[rev]
    """ don't validate really old changesets """
    within_six_months = util.matchdate("-180")
    if (not within_six_months(ctx.date()[0])):
        ui.write("Skipping check for old rev\n")
        return 0
   ...rest of hook...

def hook(ui, repo, hooktype, node=None, **kwargs):
    if hooktype == "pretxncommit":
        return myhook(ui, repo, node)
    return False


eric
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