Add Display All Git Log Entries In My Local Timezone as a Git TIL

README.md

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git/display-all-git-log-entries-in-my-local-timezone.md

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+# Display All Git Log Entries In My Local Timezone
+
+I tend to work with remote teams distributed across across multiple time zones.
+In that context, it is important to have an awareness of what time zone each
+person is operating in and to communicate clearly around that.
+
+When looking at the output for `git log` on a distributed team, the timestamps
+for each entry can be all over the place. If I want to understand when something
+was committed, I have to look at the time as well as the time zone offset and
+mentally translate it to my own time zone.
+
+There is a `git config` option to alleviate this issue by having `git log`
+convert and display all timestamps into your local time zone.
+
+```bash
+$ git config --global log.date rfc-local
+```
+
+Running that will add this entry to your _global_ git config file:
+
+```
+[log]
+	date = rfc-local
+```
+
+Now the time that was displaying as `Wed Apr 8 20:12:33 2026 -0400` will display
+as `Wed, 8 Apr 2026 19:12:33 -0500`.
+
+This also helps with smoothing out differences from DST and for commits produced
+by AI agents in sandbox environments where the locale is set to UTC.