Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] adding user.hideTimezone for setting UTC timezone
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
Shengfa Lin <shengfa@google.com> writes:
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>> Discussed with Jonathan and Junio regarding whether we should support
>> letting user specify timezone or restricted to UTC only. There was no
>> defnite conclusion.
>
> I do not think was involved in that part of the discussion to
> consider UTC vs custom zone, though.
>
> What I said is that git () { TZ=UTC command git "$@" } is simple
> enough that I doubt it is worth the engineering effort to either
> read configuration file early (which is tricky) so that setenv() can
> be done early in cmd_main() and/or audit the codebase widely enough
> (which is time consuming) to make sure that we pay attention to the
> configuration variable in all codepaths that matter to do the
> setenv().