Date and time format

lusfert lusfert at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 23:31:40 CEST 2006


Hi.

Is it possible to change date format in GPG output?

When I see

D:\>gpg --verify gnupg-w32cli-1.4.3.exe.sig
gpg: Signature made 04/03/06 14:42:33
gpg:                using RSA key 0x1CE0C630
gpg: Good signature from "Werner Koch (dist sig) <dd9jn at ...email>"

I don't understand what date does GPG mean:

— 4 March 2006?
— 3 April 2006?
— 6 March 2004?


When you see date 04/03/06 it's hard to guess what date format is used:
dd/mm/yy, mm/dd/yy, yy/mm/dd or even yy/dd/mm. By default I think it's 4
March 2006 because date format dd.mm.yy (dd.mm.yyyy) is used in my country.

Also GPG displays time (14:42:33) in such way when it's hard to guess is
it local or UTC.


Maybe it'll be better to see something like this:

D:\>gpg --verify gnupg-w32cli-1.4.3.exe.sig
gpg: Signature made 4-Apr-2006 14:42:33 (local - Russian Daylight Time)
gpg:                using RSA key 0x1CE0C630
gpg: Good signature from "Werner Koch (dist sig) <dd9jn at ...email>"

or

D:\>gpg --verify gnupg-w32cli-1.4.3.exe.sig
gpg: Signature made 04-Apr-2006 10:42:33 UTC
gpg:                using RSA key 0x1CE0C630
gpg: Good signature from "Werner Koch (dist sig) <dd9jn at ...email>"

or (maybe the best way)

D:\>gpg --verify gnupg-w32cli-1.4.3.exe.sig
gpg: Signature made 04 April 2006 14:42:33 (local - Russian Daylight Time)
gpg:                using RSA key 0x1CE0C630
gpg: Good signature from "Werner Koch (dist sig) <dd9jn at ...email>"

Suggestions are welcome.


P.S.
When I see output of PGPdump ( http://www.pgpdump.net/ ) it's much more
easier to understand what date and time are shown and what time zone is
used.

-- 
Regards
OpenPGP Key ID: 0x9E353B56500B8987
Encrypted e-mail preferred.





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