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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 18, 2007, 17:01 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707180948080.27353@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070718153614.GA28815@hartlich.com>

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Peter Hartlich wrote:

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> My timezone is set to right/Europe/Berlin. git-log 1.5.2.2 gives me 
> output such as:
> 
> | Date:   Wed Jul 18 16:17:31 2007 +0159
> 
> Note the timezone, which should be +0200.

Wow. I just tried:

	git show --raw --date=local

with TZ=CET and TZ=right/Europe/Berlin respectively.

Trippy.

I get:

	commit 9dfdf14b3805e89aa2782458bda15b3dfae24c09
	Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
	Date:   Mon Jul 16 01:41:17 2007

for the CET case, but for right/Europe/Berlin I get:

	commit 9dfdf14b3805e89aa2782458bda15b3dfae24c09
	Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
	Date:   Mon Jul 16 01:39:54 2007

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.

What can I say? "Those wacky Germans - they have a wonderful sense of humor"?

			Linus