From: Shengfa Lin <shengfa@google.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 21:23:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] adding user.hideTimezone for setting UTC timezone
Message-ID: <20201002212319.71516-1-shengfa@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlfgqes95.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

Shengfa Lin <shengfa@google.com> writes:

>> 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().

Thanks for clarifying.