[twno1]

The commit history from bad actor set tomezone to +0800 Source: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...

[lco]

> It’s most likely our actor just mashed plausible-sounding Chinese names together.

Also from that writeup. It also links to https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-time... which suggests the actual TZ of 'Jia Tan' to be UTC+02/03