# Re: \[PATCH v3 5/6\] date: document and test "raw-local" mode

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-07-27 20:17:58 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/07/7686564
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/07/7686564/t.md

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Jeff King [ref] writes:

> I do find this by itself a little hard to parse. Maybe:
>
>   `--date=raw` shows the date as seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01
>   00:00:00 UTC), followed by a space, and then the timezone as an offset
>   from UTC (a `+` or `-` with four digits; the first two are hours, and
>   the second two are minutes). I.e., as if the timestamp were formatted
>   with `strftime("%s %z")`).

I also had trouble with what I wrote.  Thanks for a great help.

```