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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Luna Schwalbe <dev@luna.gl>
Cc: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] internal date format does not accept small unix timestamps
Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 07:52:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7bolg762.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08a04d91-af90-44dd-b28f-f3d5b9e77413@luna.gl> (Luna Schwalbe's message of "Fri, 29 May 2026 16:52:38 +0200")

Luna Schwalbe <dev@luna.gl> writes:

>  > Apparently you need `@` in front for small Unix Epoch values. `@0 +0000`
>
> That is wonderful, thank you so much, I somehow did not find this small 
> detail anywhere.
>
> Maybe it could be added to Documentation/date-formats.adoc?
>
> Luna

Good suggestion.

This was introduced in 116eb3ab (parse_date(): allow ancient
git-timestamp, 2012-02-02) and 2c733fb2 (parse_date(): '@' prefix
forces git-timestamp, 2012-02-02) to allow specifying "ancient"
timestamps (like 0 +0000) without conflicting with YYYYMMDD date
formats.  I do not think neither commit added documentation for this
'@' prefix, and Documentation/date-formats would be an excellent
place to do so.

Care to whip up a patch?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-29 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-29 11:51 [BUG] internal date format does not accept small unix timestamps Luna Schwalbe
2026-05-29 12:50 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-05-29 14:52   ` Luna Schwalbe
2026-05-29 22:52     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-05-30  7:43       ` doc: document '@' prefix for raw timestamps Junio C Hamano
2026-05-31  8:29         ` Luna Schwalbe

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