From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Devste Devste <devstemail@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Config timezone to prevent chaos when DST/changing timezone
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 13:54:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfrkodrvx.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87seooss2u.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:28:57 +0100")
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> On Feb 07 2025, Devste Devste wrote:
>
>> With DST or manual timezone changes (e.g. travelling) you can end up
>> with commits that are illogically sorted - newer commits have an
>> author/committer date that is older than older commits.
>
> The time stamps in commits are recorded in Universal Time, so neither
> DST nor timezone changes (both are essentially equivalent) have an
> influence on how the time stamp is interpreted as a point in time.
The commits will be sorted correctly according to time, regardless
of the recorded timezone. Thanks for pointing it out.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-08 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-07 22:02 Config timezone to prevent chaos when DST/changing timezone Devste Devste
2025-02-07 22:47 ` brian m. carlson
2025-02-08 9:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2025-02-08 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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