Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] adding user.hideTimezone for setting UTC timezone

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 1, 2020, 15:48 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh7rec5h3.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201001034350.GB2930867@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

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> In addition to not having to futz with TZ, I think I like the
> semantics better.  The motivation that started this thread was not so
> much "I want to set a custom timezone to blend in" but rather "why are
> we recording the timezone at all here?"  In that context, it makes
> sense to me to have a setting such as
>
> 	core.recordTimeZone
>
> that I can turn *off* to say that I don't think datestamp() callers
> should consider the timezone to be information worth recording (and
> instead they should write +0000).  To me that seems a little simpler
> to understand than user.hideTimezone since this focuses on turning
> some functionality off (recording of the time zone) instead of turning
> on a new stealth mode.

Hmph.  It is a valid way to look at the issue, I guess.

Thanks for an input.