> -----Original Message----- > From: nick > Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2023 7:07 PM > Subject: Re: Git Privacy > > nick wrote: > > The time zones reveal private information about developers and they > > don't even serve a use case, as far as I'm aware. A backwards-compatible > > way to solve this leak would be to convert timestamps to UTC by default > > and have a Git config option to revert back to the current behavior. > > Come to think of it, even if timezones were converted to UTC by default, > time of day would still leak information about a user's likely timezone. Discussed this with our policy wonks... Short answer - no. There is no legal assumption that can be made - your work hours cannot be assumed to be 9-5. They also said that time zone is "too broad at 1/24th of the world", but understood the concern. That being said the recommendation is to add --privacy Where it assumes some defaults and those defaults can be controlled in your config or via --privacy=option1,option2 And then some of the options can be: date-timezone=UTC date-precision=8hour etc... v/r, Jason Pyeron -- Jason Pyeron | Architect Contractor | PD Inc | Certified SBA 8(a) 10 w 24th St | Certified SBA HUBZone Baltimore, MD | CAGE Code: 1WVR6 .mil: jason.j.pyeron.ctr@xxxxxxxx .com: jpyeron@xxxxxxxx tel : 202-741-9397
