RE: [Bug] git-log prints wrong unixtime with --date=format:%s

From: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: May 18, 2016, 16:44 UTC
Message-ID: <005a01d1b124$976dceb0$c6496c10$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvb2bs5f5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On May 18, 2016 12:22 PM Jeff King wrote:

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> > I tried a few obvious things, but couldn't make anything work. Setting
> > "timezone" manually seems to do nothing. It's supposed to be set by
> > putting the right thing in $TZ and then calling tzset(). So I tried
> > munging $TZ to something like "+0200". It did have _some_ effect, but
> > I
> 
> Wouldn't that be more like "UTC+0200"?
> 
> In any case, I do not think anybody wants to do tzset() on each and every
> commit while running "git log".  Can we declare "format:<strftime>"
> will always use the local timezone, or something?

Off the wall: Dealing in a dispersed team sharing a server that has a timezone local for only two of the members, git log messes with me also from a TZ POV. I would like to suggest a more general solution, like configuring my own TZ in ~/.gitconfig which would potentially allow an override on the command line. Would user.timezone be helpful in this situation and if set, call setenv("TZ=...")? It's not an issue when I'm local, but if I touch a clone on the server, even I get confused around DST changes in October ;).

Cheers, Randall

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