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Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-commit: add --date option
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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:27:32AM +0100, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
>> +--date=<date>::
>> +	Override the date used in the commit.  The format is the Git
>> +	native one and is `<time> SP <offutc>`.
>
> I just noticed that fmt_ident() calls parse_date(), so other formats are
> supported as well.
>
> Is there any documentation describing what does parse_date() accept?
>
> Based on t0006-date.sh and the comments in the source, I see 3 supported
> formats:
>
> 1) <unix timestamp> <timezone>
>
> 2) A format like 2008-12-02 18:04:00
>
> 3) RFC 2822 (Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200)

The above are all supported (you can label 2 as ISO even though the
official ISO8601 wants "T" instead of " " between date and time).

For more amusing ones, see

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/12241

and follow the discussion there ;-)