# git commit --date format

2 messages from 2015-04-13 to 2015-04-14. Participants: 乙酸鋰, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/39063

## 乙酸鋰, 2015-04-13 15:42

Subject: git commit --date format
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Hi,

In git < 2.0, git commit --amend --date="" can amend commit with
current time as author time.
But since git 2.0, this does not work, dying with "invalid date format".
I have to instead type git commit --amend --date="now".
Is empty string date format no longer supported? Or will be fixed?

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## Junio C Hamano, 2015-04-14 17:10

Subject: Re: git commit --date format
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乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> In git < 2.0, git commit --amend --date="" can amend commit with
> current time as author time.
> But since git 2.0, this does not work, dying with "invalid date format".
> I have to instead type git commit --amend --date="now".
> Is empty string date format no longer supported? Or will be fixed?

I think this was a fix to the overly loose parser which took any
typo (including an empty string, e.g. --date="$prevuois" that
misspels the name of a shell variable that has the timestamp) as
"now".

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