Re: Odd broken "--date=now" behavior in current git

From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Apr 15, 2015, 07:07 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1504150803370.8606@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxvcN8Dz-t6fi6etycg+AiyR0crXv5AcfCdv8ji-iNBpw@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds:

> I can't be the only one seeing this? My guess is that there's a 
> missing initialization of tm.tm_isdst somewhere or whatever.

I can confirm it if I enable DST on my machine (I usually run my machines on CET all-year, to avoid these kind of issues):

   $ echo $TZ
   Europe/Oslo
   $ git commit -m b
   [master dee7ec1] b
    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
    create mode 100644 b.txt
   $ git show --pretty=fuller
   commit dee7ec1cda74a8abd7f26c60ee1e83f73bb31194 (HEAD -> master)
   Author:     Peter Krefting <peter.krefting@bridgetech.tv>
   AuthorDate: 2015-04-15 09:04:34 +0200
   Commit:     Peter Krefting <peter.krefting@bridgetech.tv>
   CommitDate: 2015-04-15 09:04:34 +0200
   [...]
   $ git commit --amend --date=now
   [...]
   $ git show --pretty=fuller
   commit b4561e5a077de7bbcaf9fc06350ea24407adcec0 (HEAD -> master)
   Author:     Peter Krefting <peter.krefting@bridgetech.tv>
   AuthorDate: 2015-04-15 08:05:04 +0100
   Commit:     Peter Krefting <peter.krefting@bridgetech.tv>
   CommitDate: 2015-04-15 09:05:04 +0200

So the datetime is correct, it's just the timezone that is wrong (08:05+0100 = 09:05+0200).

   $ git --version
   git version 2.4.0.rc1

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