Whenever I make a comment/issue or commit. The time is off by 10 hours. I believe it is a timezone issue.
Is there a way to change my timezone for my github account?
2
-
1Is you computer up to your current time and date?– Eight Days of MalaiseNov 21, 2012 at 21:11
-
I have this issue; when I hover over "an hour ago", it tells me that I committed something in at 2am- my employer should be so lucky!– Matt FletcherJan 28, 2014 at 9:40
Add a comment
|
3 Answers
Unfortunately there is no such option. However, Github displays most dates in a relative style anyway - and that's based on your system time so those values are correct.
-
2Not true actually. When I create an issue, I see immediately "crated 10 hours ago".– KugelNov 21, 2012 at 13:06
-
-
1
-
6fun-fact: sometimes the time on my laptop is ahead of the NTP time by ~1 second; github will then always tell me that I opened an issue or pushed something "in a few seconds". I kinda like that.– dom0Feb 24, 2013 at 1:15
-
1It still shows stuff like "two hours ago" being yesterday when it's almost noon. (Not that the time is off, it's correct, it's just dates that get a bit annoying.)– njsgAug 2, 2013 at 8:20
Since March, 2014 you can, by using Github's commit API to specify the exact timestamp for your commit.
To see the the format refer to the developer's documentation.
Or you can set the timezone by passing it in headers while making the post request in a commit. like
curl -H "Time-Zone: Europe/Amsterdam" -X POST https://api.github.com/repos/github/linguist/contents/new_file.md
So what I did was I changed my computers system date/time (I use Lubuntu Linux by the way).
Here's the steps I followed:
- 1st - At 1am 9/30/19 I logged out of GitHub.
- 2nd - I changed my computers date/time to Los Angeles time. So since I am in Florida my date and time changed to 11pm 9/29/19.
- 3rd I logged back into GitHub
Result: Instead of GitHub showing 9/30/19 in the heatmap, it showed 9/29/19.
Have fun!
