diff --git a/bin/git-effort b/bin/git-effort
index 8ada5a8..28600b0 100755
--- a/bin/git-effort
+++ b/bin/git-effort
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ color=
 #
 
 date() {
-  git log --pretty='format: %ai' $1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2
+  git log --pretty='format: %ad' --date=short $1
 }
 
 #