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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 18, 2016, 17:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20160518175127.GB5796@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <005a01d1b124$976dceb0$c6496c10$@nexbridge.com>

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:44:43PM -0400, Randall S. Becker wrote:

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> 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 ;).

I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you don't like the local timezone used on the server, why don't you set TZ there? What does it buy us to introduce a git config option to do the same thing?

-Peff