Trouble with --start-date. timezone?

[pietsoftwaretogo]

Hi,

I think I can best explain my issue with the following bash output.
My PC (running windows) is configured to be at UTC+01:00 and uses 24h clock instead of 12+AM/PM.
So the commit I want to include was 15:27 local time.

Running Gource v0.51

Any thoughts?

Also it would be really helpful in my use case if I could specify a start/end commit id instead of a specific date.
But it is probably not as easy as it sounds.

Thanks!

Piet@DESKTOP ~/source/repos/GourcePr (master)
$ gource --start-date "2022-01-15 14:00:00 +0"
gource: failed to generate log file for the specified time period
Try 'gource --help' for more information.


Piet@DESKTOP ~/source/repos/GourcePr (master)
$ git log
commit f0cdf550043f852c4396d560aca8b9cac8e5ab20 (HEAD -> master)
Author: Piet Eckhart <>
Date:   Sat Jan 15 14:27:51 2022 +0000

    ADD: Some IoC and range tweaks

commit 7b8a9d72ad67f4e92214efa24a41c70adb61e69e
Author: Piet Eckhart <>
Date:   Sat Jan 15 13:42:24 2022 +0000

    ADD: Gource time period

[acaudwell]

I tried to replicate the issue with a +0 timezone, but it seems to work. I wonder if there is a different issue with that commit.

You can make gource run using a log file. You can see the command it uses with gource --git-log-command. You could generate a log file and see if you still have the same issue with gource --start-date "2022-01-15 14:00:00 +0" logfile.txt. If its still not clear what the issue is you could attach it here and I can look at it.

[pieteckhart]

It prints out the following command:
git log --pretty=format:user:%aN%n%ct --reverse --raw --encoding=UTF-8 --no-renames --no-show-signature

when I execute it shows the correct commits with unix timestamps:

1642254144 Saturday, January 15, 2022 13:42:24
1642256871 Saturday, January 15, 2022 14:27:51

when i feed the output via logfile.txt it does seem to work. weird.

I think I'm going to use the logfile.txt approach for now. But if you like I could share my private repo if you would like to investigate some more. Thanks for the help so far :)