From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Devste Devste <devstemail@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Config timezone to prevent chaos when DST/changing timezone
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:28:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87seooss2u.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANM0SV3DXQeNinmy1Spj7n6G=5s3jMcFrAb0Ayun6ago7F3qWw@mail.gmail.com> (Devste Devste's message of "Fri, 7 Feb 2025 23:02:19 +0100")
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.
> There should be an easy way to force a specific timezone - or in
> absence of that at least force UTC - to prevent this
You can use --date=local to show all dates in your local time zone,
instead of the recorded time zone of the author/committer.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-08 9:38 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 [this message]
2025-02-08 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
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