Somehow @pfefferle has time travelled.

[edent@mastodon.social]

Somehow @pfefferle has time travelled.

(Or do I not understand how GitHub dates work?)

Commits · Automattic/wordpress-activitypub

ActivityPub for WordPress. Contribute to Automattic/wordpress-activitypub development by creating an account on GitHub.

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[jemjabella@mastodon.social]

@Edent @pfefferle if you hover over "in X hours" it does give a date & time in the future. Magic!

[joshbal4@m.fa.gl]

@Edent @pfefferle GitHub’s blindly reading the date of the commit so it’s possible P’s laptop‘s date is wrong

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@joshbal4 @Edent @pfefferle https://github.com/rixx/git-backdate

[edent@mastodon.social]

@ryanc huh! Makes sense.

[pfefferle@mastodon.social]

@Edent

I changed the time on my mac, to run some tests!

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@Edent Under the hood, each commit has a series of headers very similar to email headers, and the timestamp is one of these fields. It's also possible to hide arbitrary data in the headers.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@Edent several years ago, I stuffed terminal escape sequences in there so images would be rendered in the terminal when the commit log was viewed...