how to get UTC timestamp for commit?

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 22:33 +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Matt Mackall on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 12:40:30 -0500
> > On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 03:32 +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
> >> The keyword extension provides an utcdate filter:
> >> 
> >> $ hg --config extensions.keyword= log -l1 --template '{date|utcdate}\n'
> >> 2015/08/16 18:24:30
> >> 
> >> The code looks like this:
> >> # date like in cvs' $Date
> >> def utcdate(text):
> >>    ''':utcdate: Date. Returns a UTC-date in this format: "2009/08/18 11:00:13".
> >>    '''
> >>    return util.datestr((util.parsedate(text)[0], 0), '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S')
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Maybe that helps.
> > 
> > That's a silly place for it?
> 
> I offered to make this available in core, but it wasn't deemed
> necessary. Maybe because of the '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S' format, I
> don't know.

Ahh, right. What's really wanted is an analog to localdate: don't format
the date, just change the timezone. IOW:

def utcdate(date):
    return (date[0], 0)

But now we have a name collision.

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