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bombcar

Someone said commits lined up with Beijing time, but I've not verified that.

But that wouldn't count for much, someone employed by anyone could work any hours.

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Also git actually stores the timezone information. You could see it is consistently China time (GMT+8).

P.S. could be Taiwanese as China and Taiwan share the same timezone.

Below are links to the git mailbox files where you could see the timezone.

From 2022:

- https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/c6977e740008817...

- https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/7c16e312cb2f40b...

From 2024:

- https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/af071ef7702debe...

- https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/a4f2e20d8466369...

That timezone information is provided by whoever created the commits so cannot be trusted to be correct. Considering the chosen alias it's not unexpected that the timezone information was also made to look Chinese.

So could be the holiday inactivity. I'd expect multiple layers of country obfuscation as well as conflicting information to confuse you. Or none. Impossible to know for sure.

Maybe it's a Western Australian, or Indonesian, or Thai...

GMT+8 covers a lot of places

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