date disappears if main-view-date-format string is too long

[alexch]

My original goal was to add the time zone to the date column, like this (in ~/.tigrc):

set main-view-date = custom
set main-view-date-local = true
set main-view-date-format = "%F %R %Z"

but that made the entire column disappear. On further investigation, it seems that if the main-view-date-format result string is longer than 16 characters, the whole result is empty and the column shrinks. e.g. these all display fine:

set main-view-date-format = "%R %Z"

set main-view-date-format = "%F %R"

set main-view-date-format = "%Z %Z %Z"

This happens regardless of the main-view-date-width value.

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...and I think I just found another bug - - if set main-view-date-local = false then zoned times inside the commit log are not shifted to UTC, but the zone is displayed as UTC:

e.g. a commit date of

Wed Aug 31 09:03:00 2016 -0700

is displayed as

09:03 UTC

but it should be either

16:03 UTC

or

09:03 PDT

I'd be happy to file a separate issue for that if you like.

[jonas]

Thanks for the detailed report. The first issue is trivial to fix, however the time zone formatting is a bit harder. I've only managed to fix it so that time zone offsets can be shown. I think this is in line with how Git displays date, since Git only stores time zone offsets in the commit dates.