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