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For years I've had `gc` in my terminal mapped to `TZ=UTC0 git commit` for exactly this reason. No need to change system times or git settings. (though perhaps a better way in global config?)

It's not even for nefarious reasons. I travel a lot, and don't like leaking my travel itinerary on public repos.

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I have been using a small tool I made to hide the time information in my git commits: https://github.com/SmartHypercube/git-date-truncate

It not only sets the timezone to UTC, but also sets the time to 00:00. So my commits will only have date information. I think only saving the date permanently in the git commit is good enough. No need to leak the precise time I made commits.

How about this?

  alias git='TZ=UTC0 git'

Even without the zero!

  alias git='TZ=UTC git'

I travel a lot but never change my workstation’s time zone out of PST/PDT these days. That would be a manual step and I don’t use Location Services.

Time zone is purely a displayed time consideration. I'm not bothered that the display time on my computer is different from the time zone I'm actually in.

Same. My phone automatically changes, and I'll manually change my watch, but when I travel, I leave my laptop in my home time zone. Part of it is I just can't be bothered, and part of it is I want an easy way to know what time it is at home without having to fiddle with a world clock.

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