Hello! What I am doing is: invoking a bash script that does the git add ${i##$TXPATH/}/strings.xml git commit --author="$AUTHOR" ${i##$TXPATH\/}/strings.xml -m "l10n: $LNAME update" after a user confirmation. IIUC setting LANGUAGE=en at the top of this script _did_ help. So I run everything with german locale for reproducing this. On 05.08.2012 22:47, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Christoph Miebach writes: > >> Running this commands locally (german locale) lead to some wrong dates >> for the patches upstream. >> >> git format-patch -o patches origin > > What does "git show -s --pretty=fuller HEAD" give you at this point? > This is to check what kind of timestamps are stored in the original > commit objects. See pretty_fuller.txt > And what does "grep '^Date: ' patches/0001-*" show you at this point? > This is to see if the problem is at the "format-patch" step. See date_grep.txt >> git send-email --compose --no-chain-reply-to --to some@address.com >> --suppress-cc=author patches/0001-l10n-Turkish-update.patch > > And what does "grep '^Date: '" for the message that is received by > recipients show at this step? They cannot be > >> >> >> The local >> Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 >> became >> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 > > as these two do not even have times and zones. It should read > something like > > Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 13:39:12 -0700 > > or something. It was a complete line. I just did not copy all of it, for I thought I already pointed out the problem. The recipient uses en_CA.UTF-8 and guesses: Date: 12-08-05 06:10 PM it is Y-M-D, but git thinks it's M-Y-D > Also "Date" on which message do you see your problem with? The one > that is created with --compose? Or the one that was originally > produced by format-patch and then sent? Or both? git log should show the translators name ($AUTHOR in the git commit line) Sorry for the late (and probably still incomplete) reply. I can provide a complete example or send a patch to a dummy project if you prefer some time next week, I hope. Regards Christoph