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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-11-10 09:10:51 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-11-10 09:10:51 -0800 |
| commit | c444c16589f95ac22d8e3ffe603cd7f0613512ce (patch) | |
| tree | 31d2e0c2a77344201af6f3ee5427f47218dec9bb /Documentation/date-formats.txt | |
| parent | Merge 'build-in git-mktree' (diff) | |
| parent | Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c000f08a9d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +DATE FORMATS +------------ + +The GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables +ifdef::git-commit[] +and the `--date` option +endif::git-commit[] +support the following date formats: + +Git internal format:: + It is `<unix timestamp> <timezone offset>`, where `<unix + timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. + `<timezone offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC. + For example CET (which is 2 hours ahead UTC) is `+0200`. + +RFC 2822:: + The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example + `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`. + +ISO 8601:: + Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example + `2005-04-07T22:13:13`. The parser accepts a space instead of the + `T` character as well. ++ +NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats: +`YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`. |