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In Git, there are 2 types of dates: author-date and commit-date.

git log shows the author date by default. Similarly, GitHub desktop appears to show the author-date by default. However, GitHub.com shows the commit-date by default.

So far, I was unable to find how to view the author-date for a commit on the GitHub.com website. Although this answer described how to view it in the GitHub API, I didn't find anything on how to view it on the website itself.

Is there any way to view the author-date either on the general commit log page or at the individual commit level?

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Since the author-date is part of the patch format, you can get it from appending .patch while viewing a commit on the GitHub website:

https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/commit/<commit-sha>.patch

The Date field in the output is what you are searching for:

From dc382172d6824a8f01d36904afefe8d5d3e9c0b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: [...] <[...]> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2022 11:50:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [...] --- [...]
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There should have been a simpler way, but for now I am afraid that in order to get a better solution we will have to develop a browser extension or bookmarklet
I wrote a very short JavaScript command that automatically adds the author date to a commit page, which you can use with something like a bookmarklet or ViolentMonkey: fetch(location.href.split("#")[0] + ".patch").then(x => x.text()).then(x => document.querySelector(".CommitAttribution-module__CommitAttributionContainer--dZiJ_ > relative-time").after("; Author" + x.split("\n")[2]))

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