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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     AuthorDate: Tue Apr 14 20:11:03 2015 -0800
>     Commit:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     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

With a quick check, the symptom exists at least at v2.1.4.  v2.0.x
series does not seem to have --date=now support but since there is
no change to date.c between v2.0.0 to v2.1.4, older approxidate may
be equally broken.

Will dig tomorrow, if nobody beats me to it, that is.

Thanks.

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