From: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:02:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pretty-print date in 'git log'
Message-ID: <1113850922.23938.54.camel@orca.madrabbit.org>
In-Reply-To: <1113803220.11910.81.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:46 +1000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Add tool to render git's "<utcseconds> <zone>" into an RFC2822-compliant
> string, because I don't think date(1) can do it.

I admit it's not obvious, but date(1) includes gnu's full date parser,
so you can pull stunts like:

ray:~/work/home$ date -ud 'jan 1, 1970 + 1111111111 seconds'
Fri Mar 18 01:58:31 UTC 2005
ray:~/work/home$ date -ud 'jan 1, 1970 + 1111111111 seconds + 0800'
Fri Mar 18 09:58:31 UTC 2005

Ray