Ignacio Riquelme Morelle <[email protected]>:
> On Sunday 10 February 2013 18:55:11 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > The way the timezone in this map file is used is that every git commit
> > by a given person gets a timezone part that is "his" timezone, as
> > opposed to that default +0000. This makes no difference internally
> > but affects how time is shown if a client program chooses to display
> > local time rather than UTC.
> >
> > This is a minor cosmetic detail. Don't worry about it.
>
> All right. It might just be a less trivial task for people who have actually
> moved between timezones over time. (Not me, of course.) ;)
It's exactly parallel to the problem of people who have changed email
addresses over time. Best practice is to use the ID and timezone each
user reports at the time of repo conversion, rely on them to clue in their
VCS clients about changes in the future, and prominently timestamp the
conversion so people know that *earlier* metadata is partly synthetic.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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