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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Gmail munges dates?
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:47:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy2vgkth9.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191213015753.GA14249@generichostname> (Denton Liu's message of "Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:57:53 -0800")

Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> 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".


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-13 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-13  1:57 Gmail munges dates? Denton Liu
2019-12-13  5:42 ` Jeff King
2019-12-13 17:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-13 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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