Aw: git equivalent to pulling the most recent date from ChangeLog?

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

> Building from git tip fails to insert a valid date into
> the "last modified" field.   This used to be pulled from the
> top of ChangeLog and inserted into timestamp.h but that 
> mechanism does not track the date of git commits.

That might do the trick:
  git log -1 --format=%ci | cut -b-10

  Bastian

> 
> On that note, I see that git commits keep their original date
> (of construction?) rather than the date they were committed.
> That means "git log" returns non-sequential dates in the
> history of changes.  That does not seem like a great idea.
> Is there a setting somewhere that tells git to stamp each
> commit with the current date instead?
> 
> 	Ethan