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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael Dulfer <rafael@dulfer.be>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistency between git-log documentation and behavior regarding default date format.
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 06:51:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y9pSWCS1BNkHt+Mw@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d72f484-6a72-87f9-44f1-3a38471201db@gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 02:33:49AM +0100, Andrei Rybak wrote:

> Indeed, the description of the option (which comes from
> Documentation/rev-list-options.txt) doesn't describe all differences
> between --date=default and --date=rfc2822.
> 
> A fuller list could be:
> 
>     * There is no comma after the day-of-week
>     * The time zone is omitted when the local time zone is used
>     * Day-of-month and month are switched around
>     * Time-of-day and the year are switched around
> 
> CC'ing Peff, who wrote the list of exceptions in add00ba2de (date: make
> "local" orthogonal to date format, 2015-09-03).

I don't think I had any particular reason to omit those other
differences. I probably just didn't notice them. Patches welcome.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2023-02-01 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <793c8116-f7ea-eef2-6979-231c3e94639a@dulfer.be>
2023-01-24 15:09 ` Inconsistency between git-log documentation and behavior regarding default date format Rafael Dulfer
2023-02-01  1:33   ` Andrei Rybak
2023-02-01 11:51     ` Jeff King [this message]

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