TheDong on The Go language's first commit (1972)

I can save you some time:

    git commit --date "Tue Jul 18 19:05:45 1972 -0500"

That format actually works just fine for --date.

There's also the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables.

TIL. I've never needed this, but it could come in handy in the past.

Thanks.

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