From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF82AC43603 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 17:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DEF21835 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 17:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="M+mubqUZ" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730003AbfLERn6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:43:58 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:56504 "EHLO pb-smtp1.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729711AbfLERn6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:43:58 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0860A1B631; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:43:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=51AYIVLpDvaHWRxer/LL1DKhyKc=; b=M+mubq UZEF9iR/yM6x9aACy79sVYWPVHDXh57B4UmBiT5DmizmQiq2YsjoCuqiy8ImU349 3tXd/RcD49zeemtocpSA5GX6XGuwLnMEiCAFaiYn293Fg6djSBXwYmE8eXtFrnPO gcAB+i39wS1eWHqGUv4W9hhzxXo4mTl+VGsL0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=mrCifmX4plfUGL6TTSHIaKjW+qOEuF9l QgzzPh0axUuR237U+Iqr91v6dlxak1pXDpr1l3JJkwndUNI20kSE6r+ekL7CGcN/ zkL0WbBwgf0zaJIgHKYVW/WbN1Rt2eCi/n8G3b4Zd+0MYLZhbBawpSL8jsvVMvb8 TiynoibvmVM= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31D61B630; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:43:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.76.80.147]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 53BE01B62C; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:43:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: "Randall S. Becker" Cc: "'Nathaniel Manista'" , Subject: Re: [ISSUE] Stop accessing, storing, and sharing the user's time zone References: <047b01d5ab92$159a8240$40cf86c0$@nexbridge.com> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:43:54 -0800 In-Reply-To: <047b01d5ab92$159a8240$40cf86c0$@nexbridge.com> (Randall S. Becker's message of "Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:33:13 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: CEF74326-1786-11EA-A105-C28CBED8090B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org "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.