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

From: Santiago Torres Arias <santiago@nyu.edu>
Date: Dec 5, 2019, 17:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20191205175326.fxgfofr4xvh7kaxb@LykOS.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwobazmzp.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 09:43:54AM -0800, 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.
>
> 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 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.

This is exactly what I had found confusing from the original post.

> 
> 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.

This sounds like a small delta that would probably please everyone. For now, using the --date argument on git commit allows you to also pass a timezone:

    git commit --date="$(TZ=PST date)"

Which you could easily alias...

Thanks, -Santiago