From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 21:54:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Config timezone to prevent chaos when DST/changing timezone
Message-ID: <xmqqfrkodrvx.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <87seooss2u.fsf@linux-m68k.org>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Feb 07 2025, Devste Devste wrote:
>
>> With DST or manual timezone changes (e.g. travelling) you can end up
>> with commits that are illogically sorted - newer commits have an
>> author/committer date that is older than older commits.
>
> The time stamps in commits are recorded in Universal Time, so neither
> DST nor timezone changes (both are essentially equivalent) have an
> influence on how the time stamp is interpreted as a point in time.

The commits will be sorted correctly according to time, regardless
of the recorded timezone.  Thanks for pointing it out.