git/Documentation/date-formats.adoc
brian m. carlson 1f010d6bdf doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files
We presently use the ".txt" extension for our AsciiDoc files.  While not
wrong, most editors do not associate this extension with AsciiDoc,
meaning that contributors don't get automatic editor functionality that
could be useful, such as syntax highlighting and prose linting.

It is much more common to use the ".adoc" extension for AsciiDoc files,
since this helps editors automatically detect files and also allows
various forges to provide rich (HTML-like) rendering.  Let's do that
here, renaming all of the files and updating the includes where
relevant.  Adjust the various build scripts and makefiles to use the new
extension as well.

Note that this should not result in any user-visible changes to the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-21 12:56:06 -08:00

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DATE FORMATS
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The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE` and `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables
support the following date formats:
Git internal format::
It is `<unix-timestamp> <time-zone-offset>`, where
`<unix-timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.
`<time-zone-offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC.
For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is `+0100`.
RFC 2822::
The standard date format as described by RFC 2822, for example
`Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.
ISO 8601::
Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example
`2005-04-07T22:13:13`. The parser accepts a space instead of the
`T` character as well. Fractional parts of a second will be ignored,
for example `2005-04-07T22:13:13.019` will be treated as
`2005-04-07T22:13:13`.
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NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats:
`YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`.
ifdef::git-commit[]
In addition to recognizing all date formats above, the `--date` option
will also try to make sense of other, more human-centric date formats,
such as relative dates like "yesterday" or "last Friday at noon".
endif::git-commit[]