Re: Wrong time in git-log when using right/ timezone

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Jul 18, 2007, 17:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707181849060.1544@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707180948080.27353@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> ie apparently Berlin is in a timezone of its own that is roughly one
> minute and 23 seconds away from CET.
>
> What the *heck*?
>
> I really don't think this is git that is confused: I get the exact same
> thing with "date" too:
>
> 	[torvalds@woody git]$ TZ=right/Europe/Berlin date ; TZ=CET date
> 	Wed Jul 18 18:52:25 CEST 2007
> 	Wed Jul 18 18:52:48 CEST 2007
>
> so it really *is* the tzdata that says that Berlin is not +0200, and it's
> not even +0159, it's something really strange with fractional minutes away
> from UTC.

Well ... not if you compare right/Europe/Berlin vs right/CET

jp3@neutron: ~>TZ=right/CET date '+%H:%M:%S %z'; TZ=right/Europe/Berlin date '+%H:%M:%S %z' 19:49:45 +0200 19:49:45 +0200

but, I suspect that the following is the underlying cause of the problem?

jp3@neutron: ~>TZ=right/UTC date '+%H:%M:%S %z'; TZ=UTC date '+%H:%M:%S %z' 17:51:32 +0000 17:51:55 +0000

Is git working internally in TZ=UTC?

-- 
Julian

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