git since shows wrong information

Question

Using git --since and 8 days before, it returns commits in 20 days range

git log --all --author $USER --since "8 days ago" | grep "Date:"
Date:   Mon Dec 11 13:59:23 2017 +0300
Date:   Mon Nov 20 14:43:13 2017 +0000
Date:   Fri Dec 1 16:35:56 2017 +0300
Date:   Fri Dec 1 16:31:34 2017 +0300
Date:   Fri Dec 8 16:16:56 2017 +0300
Date:   Fri Dec 8 14:01:13 2017 +0300
Date:   Thu Dec 7 17:48:54 2017 +0300
Date:   Thu Dec 7 16:53:08 2017 +0300
Date:   Thu Dec 7 16:40:48 2017 +0300
Date:   Wed Dec 6 17:20:45 2017 +0300
Date:   Wed Dec 6 17:08:32 2017 +0300
Date:   Wed Dec 6 16:52:52 2017 +0300
Date:   Wed Dec 6 16:52:07 2017 +0300
Date:   Wed Dec 6 13:34:03 2017 +0300
Date:   Wed Dec 6 13:06:41 2017 +0300
Date:   Mon Dec 4 12:30:06 2017 +0300

Why it shows the second row (November), if today is the 11th of December?

[SOLUTION] According solution for this event, I need to use

How to get git to show commits in a specified date range for author date?

Thanks @torek for clarifying this

Your command seems to work for me without strange older dates in there... — Ivonet, Dec 11 '17 at 13:26
I mean I can not reproduce it so can't really help you.. Good luck though! — Ivonet, Dec 11 '17 at 13:35
Please check, whether `Date: Mon Nov 20 14:43:13 2017 +0000` is really a commit date and not a part of some weird commit message. So remove `grep` part and inspect output carefully. — nnovich-OK, Dec 11 '17 at 15:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '17 at 16:23

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Each commit stores two dates: an "author date" and a "committer date". The --since option selects or rejects commits based on committer date stamp, while git log prints the author date stamp by default.

Add --pretty=fuller (which prints both time stamps for each selected commit) and this should become clearer.

answered Dec 11 '17 at 16:23

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yeap, you were right. Interesting behavior `AuthorDate: Mon Nov 20 14:43:13 2017 +0000 Commit: XXX CommitDate: Mon Dec 11 11:35:14 2017 +0300`. – kAldown Dec 12 '17 at 10:46

git since shows wrong information

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