Greg Reagle said: > In bash, it would be: > date --date "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%aD)" -u +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S
date: unknown option -- - usage: date [-aju] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [-z output_zone] [+format] [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]] But you have a point - this idea would sound awesome to some GNU folks. I bet autoconf people would absolutely love it. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff