Monica Powell • 3/24/2019

git is hard, but time travel in git is easy.

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This article clarifies that Git commit timestamps are based on your local system time, not the server time of hosting services like GitHub. It details how to intentionally create commits with future dates using Git environment variables (GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE) and touches on the difference between author and committer credits in collaborative projects.

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