Add link to timestamp example and add curl example

dbussink · dbussink · commit c72c2e5a06d4 · 2014-02-27T15:37:02.000+01:00
Show how curl can be used to set the header and where more information
on specifying timestamps can be found.
diff --git a/content/changes/2014-02-27-timezone-handling-changes.html b/content/changes/2014-02-27-timezone-handling-changes.html
@@ -5,10 +5,9 @@
 author_name: dbussink
 ---
 
-Timezones always present interesting engineering problems. Git can handle timezone
-information by storing timezone offsets. We have improved support in our API
-as well where we create these kinds of git objects. If you create commits through
-the API, we now allow for specifying timezone information more accurately.
+We have improved support for handling timezones in our API. For example if you
+create commits through the API, we now allow for specifying timezone information
+more accurately.
 
 We apply the following rules, in order of priority, to determine timezone
 information for API calls:
@@ -18,13 +17,17 @@
 For API calls that allow for a timestamp to be specified, we use that exact
 timestamp. An example of this is the [Commits API](/v3/git/commits).
 
-These timestamps look something like `2014-02-27T15:05:06+01:00`
+These timestamps look something like `2014-02-27T15:05:06+01:00`. Also see
+[this example](http://developer.github.com/v3/git/commits/#example-input) for
+how these timestamps can be specified.
 
 #### Using the `Time-Zone` header
 
 It is possible to supply a `Time-Zone` header which defines a timezone according
 to the [list of names from the Olson database](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones).
 
+    $ curl -H "Time-Zone: Europe/Amsterdam" -X POST https://api.github.com/repos/github/linguist/contents/new_file.md
+
 This means that we generate a timestamp for the moment your API call is made in
 the timezone this header defines. For example the [Contents API](/v3/repos/contents/)
 generates a git commit for each addition or change and uses the current time
