• Gitea version (or commit ref): 1.11.0+dev-481-g1df701fd1
• Git version: 2.17.1 or whatever try.gitea.io runs
• Operating system: Ubuntu 16.04 or whatever try.gitea.io runs
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• Can you reproduce the bug at https://try.gitea.io:
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Description

This is a feature request for the API allowing to add/update/delete files (and commit it):
​/repos​/{owner}​/{repo}​/contents​/{filepath}

I would like to be able to specify the author date and commit date, just as git commit on the command line allows (--date argument or GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variable).

We should also allow the same date formats that git commit itself allows, so not only a single unix timestamp, but also the time zone offset (or even RFC 2822/ISO8601), so that we can actually use local time zones as opposed to only UTC.

Extending the API with optional parameters does not break backwards compatibility, so this should be fine.

CCing @6543 who recently touched this code.

What do you think about this request? Would this change be complex?