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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Nathaniel Manista <nathaniel@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [ISSUE] Stop accessing, storing, and sharing the user's time zone
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Nathaniel Manista <nathaniel@google.com> writes:

> Authoring and sharing a commit by default exposes the user's time zone.

s/exposes/stores/ and that is a feature.  You are free to run 

    $ TZ=GMT git commit

if you wanted to opt out of the feature, but this has been the
default since day one and people expect Git to behave this way.