Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Rafael Dulfer <rafael@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> like. "`--date=default` is the default format. It is a custom format
>> based on rfc2822".
>
> But the thing is it is *not* custom based on rfc2822. The default
> format came first, 2822 much later. If I have to guess (and I
> shouldn't because I was around back when we invented that format,
> but I am lazy and my recollecion hazy), it came straight from the
> result of ctime() but with timezone info appended at the end.
It indeed was modeled after ctime() in f80cd783 (date.c: add
"show_date()" function., 2005-05-06).
date.c: add "show_date()" function.
Kind of like ctime(), but not as broken.
