Yes.
The TZ in git terms has no meaning what-so-ever, it's purely for
"decoration", so that people can see what the local time was. But a git
time really *is* the UTC seconds-since-1970, and the timezone is saved so
that it can be shown, but not for anything else.
So git always stores times in UTC, but then when showing them, it shows
them as relative to the timezone they were done in.
You can see this by doing
git cat-file commit HEAD
which shows something like
author Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1184542877 -0700
and that "1184542877" is literally the time in UTC, and is the only thing
that git really tracks. The "-0700" is informational, so that when you
show it as a log entry, it shows as
Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun Jul 15 16:41:17 2007 -0700
even though that "1184542877" really means "Sun Jul 15 23:41:17 2007".
So git never actually saves anything at all in local time, it just tries
to show things in whatever the local time was for the person who did
something (unless you use the "--date=local" option, in which case it
ignores the saved TZ, and uses your _current_ TZ to show the date)
Unless we have a bug, of course.
Linus
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