What date formats does git log accept for date parameters?

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What date formats does git log accept for the --before, --after, --since, and --until options (as opposed to the --date option)?

I'm interested in getting logs for date ranges in the local time zone.

Unix epoch time (seconds since 0:00 Jan 1 1970 UTC) appears to be supported. Some more info: http://alexpeattie.com/blog/working-with-dates-in-git/#date-parsing-with-approxidate — rakslice, Aug 02 '14 at 01:07

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 02 '14 at 01:17

According to the documentation these formats are accepted:

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 2 hours ahead UTC) is +0200.
RFC 2822:: The standard email 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.
+ NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats: YYYY.MM.DD, MM/DD/YYYY and DD.MM.YYYY.

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