Running 2.4.4 *** Dates do not respect LC_TIME $ date Thu 25 Jun 2015 13:02:48 CEST $ git log --pretty=fuller --date=local | head -6 | grep -i date AuthorDate: Mon Feb 16 16:47:08 2015 CommitDate: Mon Feb 16 16:47:08 2015 $ locale -ck LC_TIME | grep fmt d_t_fmt="%a %d %b %Y %r %Z" d_fmt="%d-%m-%Y" t_fmt="%r" t_fmt_ampm="%H:%M:%S" era_d_fmt="" era_d_t_fmt="" era_t_fmt="" date_fmt="%a %e %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z" *** git log --date-order and --author-date-order do not order by date $ mkdir git-test $ cd git-test $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/merijn/git-test/.git/ $ touch foo $ git add foo $ git commit -m boo [master (root-commit) 09483e5] boo 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 foo $ git log | cat commit 09483e527d6a4d4a9e49f82a11871ab55133cf72 Author: H.Merijn Brand Date: Thu Jun 25 13:14:37 2015 +0200 boo $ touch bar $ env GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2015-01-15 12:13:14" GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2015-01-15 12:13:14" git add bar $ env GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2015-01-15 12:13:14" GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2015-01-15 12:13:14" git commit -m "Commit in past" [master 6acc7f3] Commit in past 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 bar $ git log | cat commit 6acc7f3d2cbaca7176b63ffac51005ce07b90b91 Author: H.Merijn Brand Date: Thu Jan 15 12:13:14 2015 +0100 Commit in past commit 09483e527d6a4d4a9e49f82a11871ab55133cf72 Author: H.Merijn Brand Date: Thu Jun 25 13:14:37 2015 +0200 boo $ git log --date-order | cat commit 6acc7f3d2cbaca7176b63ffac51005ce07b90b91 Author: H.Merijn Brand Date: Thu Jan 15 12:13:14 2015 +0100 Commit in past commit 09483e527d6a4d4a9e49f82a11871ab55133cf72 Author: H.Merijn Brand Date: Thu Jun 25 13:14:37 2015 +0200 boo $ git log --author-date-order | cat commit 6acc7f3d2cbaca7176b63ffac51005ce07b90b91 Author: H.Merijn Brand Date: Thu Jan 15 12:13:14 2015 +0100 Commit in past commit 09483e527d6a4d4a9e49f82a11871ab55133cf72 Author: H.Merijn Brand Date: Thu Jun 25 13:14:37 2015 +0200 boo $ -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.21 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/