e>, <code>GIT_COMMITTER_DATE</code> environment variables
and the <code>--date</code> option
support the following date formats:</p>
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<dt class="hdlist1">Git internal format</dt>
<dd>
<p>It is <code>&lt;unix timestamp&gt; &lt;time zone offset&gt;</code>, where <code>&lt;unix
timestamp&gt;</code> is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.
<code>&lt;time zone offset&gt;</code> is a positive or negative offset from UTC.
For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is <code>