From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 22:03:10 GMT
Subject: Re: git log --since=<date>
Message-ID: <xmqqd07nl3dt.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <3860060.ab4mYtCOl4@hp470>

Dmitry Kulikov <dima@koulikoff.ru> writes:

> I have found a problem.
>
> It turned out, that the timestamp used to determinate which commit is later 
> the given date is not at 0h 0m 0s, Instead it is at the current time.
>
> Similarly --until=<date> uses not 23h 59m 59s but also current time.

The behaviour is as designed.  "git log --since=yesterday" does the
same "as nobody said which hour and minute, we take it to mean this
time yesterday".

You of course can say "git log --since=yesterday.midnight" if you
want to be exact ;-).