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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 30, 2020, 23:53 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqlfgqes95.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200930232138.3656304-1-shengfa@google.com>

Shengfa Lin <shengfa@google.com> writes:

> Discussed with Jonathan and Junio regarding whether we should support
> letting user specify timezone or restricted to UTC only. There was no
> defnite conclusion.

I do not think was involved in that part of the discussion to consider UTC vs custom zone, though.

What I said is that git () { TZ=UTC command git "$@" } is simple enough that I doubt it is worth the engineering effort to either read configuration file early (which is tricky) so that setenv() can be done early in cmd_main() and/or audit the codebase widely enough (which is time consuming) to make sure that we pay attention to the configuration variable in all codepaths that matter to do the setenv().