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diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt index f1097fa..e24517c 100644 --- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt @@ -1,20 +1,17 @@ DATE FORMATS ------------ -The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE`, `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables -ifdef::git-commit[] -and the `--date` option -endif::git-commit[] +The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE` and `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables support the following date formats: Git internal format:: - It is `<unix timestamp> <time zone offset>`, where `<unix - timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. - `<time zone offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC. + It is `<unix-timestamp> <time-zone-offset>`, where + `<unix-timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. + `<time-zone-offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC. For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is `+0100`. RFC 2822:: - The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example + The standard date format as described by RFC 2822, for example `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`. ISO 8601:: @@ -26,3 +23,9 @@ ISO 8601:: + NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats: `YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`. + +ifdef::git-commit[] +In addition to recognizing all date formats above, the `--date` option +will also try to make sense of other, more human-centric date formats, +such as relative dates like "yesterday" or "last Friday at noon". +endif::git-commit[] |