Documentation/date-formats.txt

   1 DATE FORMATS
   2 ------------
   3
   4 The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE`, `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables
   5 ifdef::git-commit[]
   6 and the `--date` option
   7 endif::git-commit[]
   8 support the following date formats:
   9
  10 Git internal format::
  11         It is `<unix timestamp> <time zone offset>`, where `<unix
  12         timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.
  13         `<time zone offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC.
  14         For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is `+0100`.
  15
  16 RFC 2822::
  17         The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example
  18         `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.
  19
  20 ISO 8601::
  21         Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example
  22         `2005-04-07T22:13:13`. The parser accepts a space instead of the
  23         `T` character as well.
  24 +
  25 NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats:
  26 `YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`.