fast-import fails on invalid timezones

[Mark Grandi]

I was trying to fast import the rubyonrails git repostory into bzr, when i got this error:

bzr: ERROR: 36508955: Parse error: line 36508955: Timezone '+051800' could not be converted.

this is the command that i ran:

git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git
git fast-export --all --progress=1000 --signed-tags=strip > rails.fe

cd ..
bzr init-repo rails_bzr_repo
bzr fast-import rails/rails.fe rails_bzr_repo

it seems that the commit in question is this:

commit 4cf94979c9f4d6683c9338d694d5eb3106a4e734
Author: Vijay Dev <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Aug 29 06:50:23 2011 +51800

    edit changelog to mention about x_sendfile_header default change

(on github: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4cf94979c9f4d6683c9338d694d5eb3106a4e734)

its weird that Github is able to get a date out of it, and that git seems fine with having an invalid timezone, but nevertheless , someone on irc said it should just try to parse the timezone, and if that fails, default to UTC rather then failing the entire import.