On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 09:48:54AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > I don't think "48h" does what you expect either: > > $ t/helper/test-date approxidate now > now -> 2018-11-15 14:43:32 +0000 > > $ t/helper/test-date approxidate 48h > 48h -> 2018-11-15 14:43:34 +0000 > > $ t/helper/test-date approxidate 48.hours > 48.hours -> 2018-11-13 14:43:38 +0000 Whoops, those should all be: t/helper/test-tool date approxidate ... in recent versions of Git (I was bisecting something earlier, and has a crufty test-date left over from an old version!). Adding new unit aliases would be something like: diff --git a/date.c b/date.c index 9bc15df6f9..eb477d1601 100644 --- a/date.c +++ b/date.c @@ -1016,6 +1016,7 @@ static const struct typelen { { "minutes", 60 }, { "hours", 60*60 }, { "days", 24*60*60 }, + { "d", 24*60*60 }, { "weeks", 7*24*60*60 }, { NULL } }; but I suspect we need to tighten up the string matching a bit. I think that would allow "2 dogs" to be parsed as "days". -Peff