RE: [ISSUE] Stop accessing, storing, and sharing the user's time zone

From: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Dec 5, 2019, 18:00 UTC
Message-ID: <048901d5ab95$dd6d43e0$9847cba0$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwobazmzp.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On December 5, 2019 12:44 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
> > .... I currently am
> > running a repository located at UTC+2, with developers at UTC-5. It is
> > driving us a bit wonky. I would rather see only UTC.
> 
> If "seeing" is the primary reason (i.e. you want to compare times your

people

> worked on their commits), you can always do that on the display side (e.g.
> "git log --date=local").  It is not a good excuse to advocate for

information

> loss.
> 
> I also feel that TZ being PII is not particularly a brilliant argument

against

> recording TZ---of course it is PII, so are the committer e-mail address

and the

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> committer name.  Those who want to hide can hide but in order to keep
> track of provenance who did what when, we do record them.
> 
> As you can guess from the above reasoning, I am not fundamentally opposed
> to introducing user.tz to complement existing user.name and user.email
> configuration variables.

I rather like this idea. I'm going to look into it when I'm in the upside-down toward the end of the month.

Cheers, Randall