From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:33:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-commit: add --date option
Message-ID: <20091202203351.GB31763@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091202192425.GC30778@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:24:25PM -0500, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:35:48AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > > Is there any documentation describing what does parse_date() accept?
> > [...]
> > The above are all supported (you can label 2 as ISO even though the
> > official ISO8601 wants "T" instead of " " between date and time).
> > 
> > For more amusing ones, see
> > 
> >     http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/12241
> > 
> > and follow the discussion there ;-)
> 
> Aren't the amusing ones the result of approxidate, and not parse_date?
> At least that is my recollection from working on the date code when I
> ate 30 hot dogs last August.

I think you are right, at least --date="2008-12-02 18:04:00" works here,
but not --date="teatime".