Provide `datetime` version of `comitted_date` and `authored_date`

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[Byron]

Please see #327 for the reason this has been closed.

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Is it not clear why this is needed? I need the date and time in which a
commit was made. I could make a function to translate to Python datetime,
but it would be best if I could get that information directly from the
commit object without converting.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Sebastian Thiel notifications@github.com
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Please see #327
#327 for the
reason this has been closed.

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[Byron]

The return value of the mentioned methods is exactly what is stored in git. Built-in conversion methods to all the suitable date and date-time representations out there seem unfeasible.
Therefore, clients will have to convert these values to match their specific requirements.

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"all the suitable date and date-time representations" There's a very
standard model in Python for datetimes and that's the datetime.datetime
class. On it there is a method strftime which lets you format time in
whatever display standard you want. So supplying the datetime in
datetime.datetime
format would make life easy for people wanting to represent the datetimes
in whichever format they want. Note that this is the approach that Django
takes, among many other packages, when exposing datetime fields.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Sebastian Thiel notifications@github.com
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The return value of the mentioned methods is exactly what is stored in
git. Built-in conversion methods to all the suitable date and date-time
representations out there seem unfeasible.
Therefore, clients will have to convert these values to match their
specific requirements.

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