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+DATE FORMATS
+------------
+
+The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE` and `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables
+support the following date formats:
+
+Git internal format::
+ It is `<unix-timestamp> <time-zone-offset>`, where
+ `<unix-timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.
+ `<time-zone-offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC.
+ For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is `+0100`.
+
+RFC 2822::
+ The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example
+ `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.
+
+ISO 8601::
+ Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example
+ `2005-04-07T22:13:13`. The parser accepts a space instead of the
+ `T` character as well. Fractional parts of a second will be ignored,
+ for example `2005-04-07T22:13:13.019` will be treated as
+ `2005-04-07T22:13:13`.
++
+NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats:
+`YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`.
+
+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".
+endif::git-commit[]