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Subject: Re: git and time
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Matthew L Foster wrote:
> --- Rogan Dawes <discard@dawes.za.net> wrote:
> 
>> I just don't think that any of the kernel developers feel the need to 
>> police any one else's clocks . . . they're more interested in the 
>> contents of the patch.
> 
> I am not saying git should "police any one else's clocks", I am saying git should be designed or
> configured in such a way, using local time, that it obviates the current reliance on everyone
> else's clock being set correctly. 

Sounds like you're suggesting that Git should not record any timestamps 
at all. After all, Git doesn't need them.