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--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> The fact is, in a distributed system, you can _never_ make sense of 
> "time". Just live with it. That's basic "distributed programming 101", and 
> it's the one thing every such course should start with on the very first 
> day.

I agree which is exactly why I think git should conceptually prefer a repo's _local_ time. 

Commit/merge times could be specific to each repo and not generally distributed?  
 
-Matt

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