Re: Odd broken "--date=now" behavior in current git

> I just noticed this because I had amended some merge commits with
>
>    git commit --amend --date=now
>
> to update them, and that gets some funny broken timezones. I suspect
> it's some silly daylight savings time issue.
>
> Lookie here, I can reproduce it trivially with current git (in the git
> repo itself):
>
>     [torvalds@i7 git]$ date; git commit -m Test --allow-empty --date=now
>     Tue Apr 14 21:11:03 PDT 2015
>     [master ec7733db5360] Test
>      Date: Tue Apr 14 20:11:03 2015 -0800
>
> notice how the commit date message shows something funny. It shows an
> hour earlier, but in -0800.
>
> And the resulting commit is broken:
>
>     [torvalds@i7 git]$ git show --pretty=fuller
>     commit ec7733db5360966434e03eab1a849e6d4227231c (HEAD -> master)
>     Author:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>     AuthorDate: Tue Apr 14 20:11:03 2015 -0800
>     Commit:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>     CommitDate: Tue Apr 14 21:11:03 2015 -0700
>
>         Test
>
> notice how the AuthorDate has that "-0800", but the CommitDate has "-0700".
>
> Hmm.
>
> I can't be the only one seeing this? My guess is that there's a
> missing initialization of tm.tm_isdst somewhere or whatever.
>
> The above is with current git:
>
>     [torvalds@i7 git]$ git version
>     git version 2.4.0.rc2