How can I ignore committing timezone information in my commit?

Question

Recently, I forked a repository hosted by github, with contributors spreading all over the world, and found out that the each commit log contains committer\'s timezone infor

Answer 1

You can use this command to commit in UTC time:

git commit --date="`date --utc +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z`"

You can also alias it to a convenient name:

git config --global alias.commitutc '!git commit --date="$(date --utc +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)"'

And do git commitutc.

For a more detailed explanation take a look at this blog post.