On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Shaun Uldrikis <stuldrikis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you supply a non-standard format to the date configuration for git > log, something like: > [log] > date = format:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M So I ran $ git config log.date "format:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" $ git config --list |grep log.date log.date=format:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M Then I have a script as $ cat script.sh #!/bin/sh git log >out after executing I get: $ head out commit 7930db48ca31b41ac335ae8cd25cb29094d1de5e Author: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: 2017-06-30 09:26 Also gitk seems to work here. Rene's answer sounds reasonable, check the version(s) of Git on your system?