Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Unfortunately, it seems like mutt wasn't the culprit, it was Gmail > that's been munging the dates. For example, in this patch[1], the date > shows as > > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:44:50 -0800 > > even though locally, the output of the format-patch shows as > > Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 19:25:34 +0100 "git send-email" records the timestamp of sending. If you really want to force a specific author date, you could add a in-body Date: but it is discouraged in mailing-list centric workflow, because it is more natural for everybody other than the author to consider that the time the patch hits the list, i.e. the public eyes, is when the patch was "authored".
