From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 16:21:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [Bug] git-log prints wrong unixtime with --date=format:%s
Message-ID: <xmqqvb2bs5f5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160518005824.GA7120@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I tried a few obvious things, but couldn't make anything work. Setting
> "timezone" manually seems to do nothing. It's supposed to be set by
> putting the right thing in $TZ and then calling tzset(). So I tried
> munging $TZ to something like "+0200". It did have _some_ effect, but I

Wouldn't that be more like "UTC+0200"?

In any case, I do not think anybody wants to do tzset() on each and
every commit while running "git log".  Can we declare "format:<strftime>"
will always use the local timezone, or something?