From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:55:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-commit: add --date option
Message-ID: <7vaay1gt0z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vpr6xgtxn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:
> ...
>> Is there any documentation describing what does parse_date() accept?
>>
>> Based on t0006-date.sh and the comments in the source, I see 3 supported
>> formats:
>>
>> 1) <unix timestamp> <timezone>
>>
>> 2) A format like 2008-12-02 18:04:00
>>
>> 3) RFC 2822 (Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200)
>
> 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 ;-)

I should have mentioned ones with more importance in real-life before
referring you to the amusing ones: US and European dates.

date.c::match_multi_number() groks these:

    mm/dd/yy[yy] (US)
    dd.mm.yy[yy] (European)