user-manual: minor editing for conciseness

[git.git] / date.c

diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index a9b59a289e7b22f34958ccc7b80b02a01cf793c6..4690371e5559f72b7755b3cc92ae85843098d285 100644 (file)
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -414,9 +414,11 @@ static int match_digit(const char *date, struct tm *tm, int *offset, int *tm_gmt
        num = strtoul(date, &end, 10);
 
        /*
-        * Seconds since 1970? We trigger on that for anything after Jan 1, 2000
+        * Seconds since 1970? We trigger on that for any numbers with
+        * more than 8 digits. This is because we don't want to rule out
+        * numbers like 20070606 as a YYYYMMDD date.
         */
-       if (num > 946684800) {
+       if (num >= 100000000) {
                time_t time = num;
                if (gmtime_r(&time, tm)) {
                        *tm_gmt = 1;