From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E2C1F463 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 18:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729789AbfLESAa (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2019 13:00:30 -0500 Received: from elephants.elehost.com ([216.66.27.132]:32362 "EHLO elephants.elehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729535AbfLESAa (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2019 13:00:30 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at elehost.com Received: from gnash (CPE00fc8d49d843-CM00fc8d49d840.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.229.179.249]) (authenticated bits=0) by elephants.elehost.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id xB5I0M5W049263 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Dec 2019 13:00:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsbecker@nexbridge.com) From: "Randall S. Becker" To: "'Junio C Hamano'" Cc: "'Nathaniel Manista'" , References: <047b01d5ab92$159a8240$40cf86c0$@nexbridge.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: [ISSUE] Stop accessing, storing, and sharing the user's time zone Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 13:00:17 -0500 Message-ID: <048901d5ab95$dd6d43e0$9847cba0$@nexbridge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Thread-Index: AQGSZ87M+0b1HQfUDxVKMhYVkZ/1cgExrlvzAdtD5d2oGfP04A== Content-Language: en-ca Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On December 5, 2019 12:44 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Randall S. Becker" 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