On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 05:32:52PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Toon Moene <t...@moene.org>: > > So we are going to base this world wide free software endeavor on a source > > code system that doesn't keep time by UTC ? > > They all *do* keep time by UTC.
(Git stores unix time, instead -- close enough ;-) ) > What confuses me is why they every try to *display* anything other than UTC. That depends on what you yourself configured (log.date, blame.date). > It seems pointless to me to ever display local time in clients, but they do it > anyway. Many people only work with their local team in their local office. For GCC we do not care, and we could always store +0000 as timezone offset -- we do not *have* the correct data, and at least UTC is more useful to display. Segher