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