diff --git a/src/org/opensolaris/opengrok/history/GitRepository.java b/src/org/opensolaris/opengrok/history/GitRepository.java
index 553a2faa73f..9bfcced703f 100644
--- a/src/org/opensolaris/opengrok/history/GitRepository.java
+++ b/src/org/opensolaris/opengrok/history/GitRepository.java
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 import org.opensolaris.opengrok.configuration.RuntimeEnvironment;
 import org.opensolaris.opengrok.logger.LoggerFactory;
 import org.opensolaris.opengrok.util.Executor;
+import org.opensolaris.opengrok.util.StringUtils;
 
 /**
  * Access to a Git repository.
@@ -663,24 +664,38 @@ String determineBranch() throws IOException {
         return branch;
     }
 
+    private static final SimpleDateFormat outputDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm");
+
     @Override
     String determineCurrentVersion() throws IOException {
-        String line = null;
         File directory = new File(directoryName);
-
         List<String> cmd = new ArrayList<>();
         ensureCommand(CMD_PROPERTY_KEY, CMD_FALLBACK);
         cmd.add(RepoCommand);
         cmd.add("log");
         cmd.add("-1");
         cmd.add("--pretty=%cd: %h %an %s");
-        cmd.add("--date=format:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M");
+        cmd.add("--date=rfc");
 
         Executor executor = new Executor(cmd, directory);
         if (executor.exec(false) != 0) {
             throw new IOException(executor.getErrorString());
         }
 
-        return executor.getOutputString().trim();
+        String output = executor.getOutputString().trim();
+        int indexOf = StringUtils.nthIndexOf(output, ":", 3);
+        if (indexOf < 0) {
+            throw new IOException(
+                    String.format("Couldn't extract date from \"%s\".",
+                            new Object[]{output}));
+        }
+
+        try {
+            Date date = getDateFormat().parse(output.substring(0, indexOf));
+            return String.format("%s%s",
+                    new Object[]{outputDateFormat.format(date), output.substring(indexOf)});
+        } catch (ParseException ex) {
+            throw new IOException(ex);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/org/opensolaris/opengrok/util/StringUtils.java b/src/org/opensolaris/opengrok/util/StringUtils.java
index 9c129cb1b37..cb1963021b0 100644
--- a/src/org/opensolaris/opengrok/util/StringUtils.java
+++ b/src/org/opensolaris/opengrok/util/StringUtils.java
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
  */
 
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2008, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  */
 
 package org.opensolaris.opengrok.util;
@@ -107,4 +107,28 @@ public static String getReadableTime(long time_ms) {
 
       return (output.length() == 0 ? "0" : output);
   }
+
+    /**
+     * Finds n-th index of a given substring in a string.
+     *
+     * @param str an original string
+     * @param substr a substring to match
+     * @param n n-th occurrence
+     * @return the index of the first character of the substring in the original
+     * string where the substring occurred n-th times in the string. If the n-th
+     * candidate does not exist, -1 is returned.
+     */
+    public static int nthIndexOf(String str, String substr, int n) {
+        int pos = -1;
+        while (n > 0) {
+            if (pos >= str.length()) {
+                return -1;
+            }
+            if ((pos = str.indexOf(substr, pos + 1)) == -1) {
+                break;
+            }
+            n--;
+        }
+        return pos;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/test/org/opensolaris/opengrok/util/StringUtilsTest.java b/test/org/opensolaris/opengrok/util/StringUtilsTest.java
index 312b7aac6c8..bc7753e6f53 100644
--- a/test/org/opensolaris/opengrok/util/StringUtilsTest.java
+++ b/test/org/opensolaris/opengrok/util/StringUtilsTest.java
@@ -17,12 +17,13 @@
  * CDDL HEADER END
  */
 
-/*
- * Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ /*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  */
 package org.opensolaris.opengrok.util;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
+
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 /**
@@ -49,4 +50,62 @@ public void testValues() {
             assertEquals(expected[i], StringUtils.getReadableTime(values[i]));
         }
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testNthIndexOf() {
+        Object[][] tests = new Object[][]{
+            {"", "", -1},
+            {"", "", 0},
+            {"", "", 1},
+            {"", "", 2},
+            {"foo", "foo", 0},
+            {"foo", "foo", 1},
+            {"foo", "foo", 2},
+            {"foo", "foo", 3},
+            {"foo", "f", 0},
+            {"foo", "f", 1},
+            {"foo", "f", 2},
+            {"foo", "f", 3},
+            {"foo", "o", 0},
+            {"foo", "o", 1},
+            {"foo", "o", 2},
+            {"foo", "o", 3},
+            {"This is an example string", "a", 2},
+            {"This is an example string", "a", 3},
+            {"This is an example string", "i", 1},
+            {"This is an example string", "i", 2},
+            {"This is an example string", "i", 3},
+            {"This is an example string", "is", 1},
+            {"This is an example string", "is", 2},
+            {"aabbccddaabbccdd", "a", 1},
+            {"aabbccddaabbccdd", "a", 2},
+            {"aabbccddaabbccdd", "a", 3},
+            {"aabbccddaabbccdd", "a", 4},
+            {"aabbccddaabbccdd", "cd", 1},
+            {"aabbccddaabbccdd", "cd", 2},
+            {"aabbccddaabbccdd", "ccdd", 1},
+            {"aabbccddaabbccdd", "ccdd", 2},};
+
+        int[] indices = new int[]{
+            -1, -1, 0, -1,
+            -1, 0, -1, -1,
+            -1, 0, -1, -1,
+            -1, 1, 2, -1,
+            13, -1,
+            2, 5, 22,
+            2, 5,
+            0, 1, 8, 9,
+            5, 13,
+            4, 12
+        };
+
+        assertEquals(tests.length, indices.length);
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < tests.length; i++) {
+            int index = StringUtils.nthIndexOf((String) tests[i][0], (String) tests[i][1], (Integer) tests[i][2]);
+            assertEquals(String.format("%d-th occurrence of \"%s\" in \"%s\" should start at %d but started at %d",
+                    new Object[]{tests[i][2], tests[i][1], tests[i][0], indices[i], index}),
+                    index, indices[i]);
+        }
+    }
 }