By selecting a tag within gitk you can display information about it.
This information is output by using the command
'git cat-file tag <tagid>'
This outputs the *raw* information from the tag, amongst which is the
time - in seconds since the epoch. As useful as that value is, I find it
a lot easier to read and process time which it is something like:
"Mon Dec 31 14:26:11 2012 -0800"
This change will modify the display of tags in gitk like so:
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
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type commit
tag v1.8.1
-tagger Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
1356992771 -0800
+tagger Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Mon Dec 31 14:26:11 2012 -0800
Git 1.8.1
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