From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:54:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Document date formats accepted by parse_date()
Message-ID: <7v638p9ebz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091203073313.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> writes:

> Is there something wrong with 'show'?
>
>   nana.git% ./test-date show '2005-04-07T22:13:13'
>   2005-04-07T22:13:13 -> 40 years ago

Heh, you fooled me, and Peff is right.  "test-date show" does not
interpret its input any way other than as seconds-since-epoch.

I agree with the "native->internal" part of the suggestion.  What see by
default in "git show" output is merely the ctime(3) format followed by
timezone.  I don't mind if we call that "git native", even though I
suspect we do _not have to_ invent new word for that.

Also "test-date parse" seems to accept things like these:

    '2009.04.07 20:21:22 -0000'
    '04/07/2009 20:21:22 -0000'
    '07.04.2009 20:21:22 -0000'