# Re: \[PATCH v2\] doc: \`--date\` in \`git-commit\` accepts approxidates

- From: Jeff King \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-02-23 19:06:51 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7877452
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7877441/t.md

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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 06:52:02PM +0000, Utku Gultopu via GitGitGadget wrote:

> +ifdef::git-commit[]
> +In addition to recognizing all date formats above, the `--date` option
> +will also try to make sense of other, more human-centric date formats,
> +such as relative dates like "yesterday" or "last Friday at noon". For
> +further details on what kind of formats are accepted, please refer to
> +the `approxidate_careful` function in `date.c` file in Git source code.
> +endif::git-commit[]

OK. This is still referring to `approxidate_careful`, which may not be
meaningful to most users. But at least it makes a best effort at a
hand-waving definition before then. :)

I'd probably omit the final sentence entirely (as it may simply confuse
people who don't know how to find Git's source), but I'm OK with it
either way.

-Peff
```