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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: add UTC option for pretty-formats
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 02:41:50 -0600
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Hi Jeff,

Jeff Carr wrote:

> --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ The placeholders are:
>  - '%ar': author date, relative
>  - '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
>  - '%ai': author date, ISO 8601 format
> +- '%au': author date, UTC

Why not:

	TZ=UTC git log --format=%ad --date=local

or something like:

	git log --format=%AD(rfc2822,tz=UTC)

?  In other words, why should we provide this feature with date=rfc
dates and not date=iso ones?