On December 5, 2019 12:44 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > .... I currently am > > running a repository located at UTC+2, with developers at UTC-5. It is > > driving us a bit wonky. I would rather see only UTC. > > If "seeing" is the primary reason (i.e. you want to compare times your people > worked on their commits), you can always do that on the display side (e.g. > "git log --date=local"). It is not a good excuse to advocate for information > loss. > > I also feel that TZ being PII is not particularly a brilliant argument against > recording TZ---of course it is PII, so are the committer e-mail address and the > committer name. Those who want to hide can hide but in order to keep > track of provenance who did what when, we do record them. > > As you can guess from the above reasoning, I am not fundamentally opposed > to introducing user.tz to complement existing user.name and user.email > configuration variables. I rather like this idea. I'm going to look into it when I'm in the upside-down toward the end of the month. Cheers, Randall
