diff/Checking out by date specification

[Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@rea-group.com>]

Hi,
`man git-rev-parse` seems to indicate that one can look at the state of 
the repository by date (absolute or relative), and use this for diff or 
checkout, etc.
It includes examples such as "{yesterday}" and "{1979-02-26 18:30:00}".

I'm struggling to get this to work in real life with cloned 
repositories, as I receive an error that the log only goes back  to 
whenever I cloned the repository.

Is there a way to make this operate upon the remote log?

Eg:

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
$ cd git
$ git diff "@{yesterday}"
warning: Log for '' only goes back to Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:22:52 +1000.
fatal: bad object @{yesterday}


Cheers,
Toby

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