From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:31:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [ISSUE] Stop accessing, storing, and sharing the user's time zone
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In-Reply-To: <CAEOYnAQYMrNAe9s1V-0DVLdL-B_KpHMDP5e=yRnbCkMWdrvFHQ@mail.gmail.com>

Nathaniel Manista <nathaniel@google.com> writes:

> Authoring and sharing a commit by default exposes the user's time zone.

s/exposes/stores/ and that is a feature.  You are free to run 

    $ TZ=GMT git commit

if you wanted to opt out of the feature, but this has been the
default since day one and people expect Git to behave this way.