From: Devste Devste <devstemail@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:02:19 GMT
Subject: Config timezone to prevent chaos when DST/changing timezone
Message-ID: <CANM0SV3DXQeNinmy1Spj7n6G=5s3jMcFrAb0Ayun6ago7F3qWw@mail.gmail.com>

Issue:
With DST or manual timezone changes (e.g. travelling) you can end up
with commits that are illogically sorted - newer commits have an
author/committer date that is older than older commits.

I found the discussion about user.hideTimezone
https://public-inbox.org/git/CAEOYnAQYMrNAe9s1V-0DVLdL-B_KpHMDP5e=yRnbCkMWdrvFHQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
and
https://git.github.io/rev_news/2023/08/31/edition-102/

While there are workarounds, these aren't possible in all cases (e.g.
"export TZ=UTC0" won't work with many IDEs since they run git in a
separate shell and has side-effects on non-git commands. Using
pre/post-commit/rewrite/merge hooks won't guarantee it's correct e.g.
if bypassing them if there checks in there that should be skipped)

There should be an easy way to force a specific timezone - or in
absence of that at least force UTC - to prevent this