how to get UTC timestamp for commit?

[Christian Ebert]

* Matt Mackall on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 16:57:05 -0500
> 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.

I know. But core should have priority. Maybe there's a pragmatic
way to deal with a bit of BC breakage. One could argue that no
crucial data breaks ...

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