From: Derrick Stolee Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:07:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] show_date_relative(): drop unused "tz" parameter Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20190124131221.GE22398@sigill.intra.peff.net> On 1/24/2019 8:12 AM, Jeff King wrote: > The timestamp we receive is in epoch time, so there's no need for a > timezone parameter to interpret it. The matching show_date() uses "tz" > to show dates in author local time, but relative dates show only the > absolute time difference. The author's location is irrelevant, barring > relativistic effects from using Git close to the speed of light. I fully support more humor in our commit messages. -Stolee