Yes. That is the case. Just confirmed it. I'll remove the old version. Sorry to have bothered the mailing list. Thank you. -Shaun On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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?