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DATE FORMATS
------------
-The GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables
+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
+ It is `<unix timestamp> <time zone 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`.
+ `<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