1DATE FORMATS 2------------ 3 4The GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables 5ifdef::git-commit[] 6and the `--date` option 7endif::git-commit[] 8support the following date formats: 9 10Git internal format:: 11 It is `<unix timestamp> <time zone offset>`, where `<unix 12 timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. 13 `<time zone offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC. 14 For example CET (which is 2 hours ahead UTC) is `+0200`. 15 16RFC 2822:: 17 The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example 18 `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`. 19 20ISO 8601:: 21 Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example 22 `2005-04-07T22:13:13`. The parser accepts a space instead of the 23 `T` character as well. 24+ 25NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats: 26`YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`.