Re: orthogonal cases of log --date option

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 3, 2009, 08:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20090303083436.GD3158@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <buo8wnnrpcf.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:18:56PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:

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> I can use "git log --date=iso" to get YYYY-MM-DD format for dates, or
> "git log --date=local" to force the dates to use my local time zone, but
> if I use _both_ of these options together, it uses only the last one,
> and ignores any preceding --date (even those in this case, the two
> --date options affect orthogonal properties of dates).

Yuck. It sounds like --date=local is really the wrong way to have implemented it. It really should be:

  git log --date=iso --local-dates

I don't think there is currently a way to do what you want, but it is not too late to add an option (and keep --date=local as a synonym for --date=default --local-dates for compatibility).

> Is there a way to get YYYY-MM-DD format dates, but in my local
> time-zone?

Short of using --date=raw and munging the output with perl, I don't think so.

-Peff