From 788070a261ecc3a37a7e0ed9301ecec4a333586d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Vajna Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:49:19 +0100 Subject: Document date formats accepted by parse_date() Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/date-formats.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/date-formats.txt (limited to 'Documentation/date-formats.txt') 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 ` `, where `` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. + `` 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`. -- cgit v1.2.3