# Date in git-commit output inconsistent with log.date format

2 messages from 2022-05-16 to 2022-05-16. Participants: Damien Regad, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/57887

## Damien Regad, 2022-05-16 12:42

Subject: Date in git-commit output inconsistent with log.date format
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I was amending a commit message, and noticed the date in the output is
printed in 'default' format, as shown below:

$ git commit --amend --no-edit
[x bf63ada92] Test commit
 Date: Mon May 16 14:25:57 2022 +0200
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 test.txt

Since I have set log.date=iso, I was expecting the date to use the
format defined in that configuration. Is it intentional that the
default format is applied instead ?

Thanks
Damien


PS: Apologies if this has been asked before, I did search the list
archive without finding anything relevant.

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## Junio C Hamano, 2022-05-16 16:14

Subject: Re: Date in git-commit output inconsistent with log.date format
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Damien Regad <dregad@mantisbt.org> writes:

> I was amending a commit message, and noticed the date in the output is
> printed in 'default' format, as shown below:
>
> $ git commit --amend --no-edit
> [x bf63ada92] Test commit
>  Date: Mon May 16 14:25:57 2022 +0200
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 test.txt
>
> Since I have set log.date=iso, I was expecting the date to use the
> Is it intentional that the
> default format is applied instead ?

Yes.

That output is from "git commit", and is not from any command in the
"git log" family.  Besides, it way predates the introduction of
log.date configuration variable.

This could be a XY problem.  Can you tell us why you care?  What
motivates you to see that date (and optionally Author when the
author is different from the current user) output in a specific
format---it is meant for human consumption so "I run 'git commit' in
a script and scrape its output" would not be it.

Thanks.

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