为什么Git有下午茶时间？

在Git源代码的date.c文件中，我注意到特殊时间名称的以下结构：

static const struct special {
    const char *name;
    void (*fn)(struct tm *, struct tm *, int *);
} special[] = {
    { "yesterday", date_yesterday },
    { "noon", date_noon },
    { "midnight", date_midnight },
    { "tea", date_tea },
    { "PM", date_pm },
    { "AM", date_am },
    { "never", date_never },
    { "now", date_now },
    { NULL }
};

我了解其中大多数的实用程序（但有些实用），但是为什么要花一些时间（计算时间为17:00小时）？这只是某种复活节彩蛋吗？

该提交可能会为您提供一个为什么包含它的线索：https : //github.com/git/git/commit/a8aca418d6484400d6804e22717bd49ca06c28e9

我认为最初建议是开个玩笑，但实际上是为了向用户展示自己包括自定义时间/日期的能力而实施的：

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, David Roundy wrote:
> Don't forget "high noon"!  (and perhaps "tea time"?)  :)


Done.

    [torvalds@g5 git]$ ./test-date "now" "midnight" "high noon" "tea-time"
    now -> bad -> Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
    now -> Fri Nov 18 08:50:54 2005

    midnight -> bad -> Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
    midnight -> Fri Nov 18 00:00:00 2005

    high noon -> bad -> Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
    high noon -> Thu Nov 17 12:00:00 2005

    tea-time -> bad -> Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
    tea-time -> Thu Nov 17 17:00:00 2005

Thanks for pointing out tea-time.

This is also written to easily extended to allow people to add their own
important dates like Christmas and their own birthdays.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>