The Git documentation
<https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-log#Documentation/git-log.txt---dateltformatgt> states
that if no date format is given (or --date=default is given), the date
format is similar to rfc2822 except of a few exceptions, of which those
listed are:
* There is no comma after the day-of-week
* The time zone is omitted when the local time zone is used
However, if we were to compare the two date formats, you can see another
difference:
git log --default -> Tue Jan 24 11:03:47 2023 +0100
git log --rfc -> Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:03:47 +0100
With the default, the month and day-of-month are switched around. From
my own quick investigation, this behavior occurs because of the
statement found at date.c#L266
<https://github.com/git/git/blob/56c8fb1e95377900ec9d53c07886022af0a5d3c2/date.c#L266>
wherein the month is inserted before the day-of-month. I am unsure which
behavior is exactly intended and whether this discrepancy was known, but
it would probably be a good idea to have a note of it in the documentation.
