diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
index 6926e0a4c8..7e7eaba643 100644
--- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ RFC 2822::
 ISO 8601::
 	Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example
 	`2005-04-07T22:13:13`. The parser accepts a space instead of the
-	`T` character as well.
+	`T` character as well. Fractional parts of a second will be ignored,
+	for example `2005-04-07T22:13:13.019` will be treated as
+	`2005-04-07T22:13:13`
+
 +
 NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats:
 `YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`.
diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index fa39e5e8a5..2c9071d53f 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -553,6 +553,11 @@ static int set_time(long hour, long minute, long second, struct tm *tm)
 	return -1;
 }
 
+static int is_date_known(struct tm *tm)
+{
+	return tm->tm_year != -1 && tm->tm_mon != -1 && tm->tm_mday != -1;
+}
+
 static int match_multi_number(timestamp_t num, char c, const char *date,
 			      char *end, struct tm *tm, time_t now)
 {
@@ -571,6 +576,13 @@ static int match_multi_number(timestamp_t num, char c, const char *date,
 		if (num3 < 0)
 			num3 = 0;
 		if (set_time(num, num2, num3, tm) == 0) {
+			/*
+			 * If %H:%M:%S was just parsed followed by: .<num4>
+			 * Consider (& discard) it as fractional second
+			 * if %Y%m%d is parsed before.
+			 */
+			if (*end == '.' && isdigit(end[1]) && is_date_known(tm))
+				strtol(end + 1, &end, 10);
 			break;
 		}
 		return 0;
diff --git a/t/t0006-date.sh b/t/t0006-date.sh
index d9fcc829a9..80917c81c3 100755
--- a/t/t0006-date.sh
+++ b/t/t0006-date.sh
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ check_parse 2008-02 bad
 check_parse 2008-02-14 bad
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 +0000'
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0500' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0500'
+check_parse '2008.02.14 20:30:45 -0500' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0500'
+check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45.019-04:00' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0400'
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0015' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0015'
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -5' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 +0000'
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -5:' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 +0000'
@@ -103,6 +105,7 @@ check_approxidate 5.seconds.ago '2009-08-30 19:19:55'
 check_approxidate 10.minutes.ago '2009-08-30 19:10:00'
 check_approxidate yesterday '2009-08-29 19:20:00'
 check_approxidate 3.days.ago '2009-08-27 19:20:00'
+check_approxidate '12:34:56.3.days.ago' '2009-08-27 12:34:56'
 check_approxidate 3.weeks.ago '2009-08-09 19:20:00'
 check_approxidate 3.months.ago '2009-05-30 19:20:00'
 check_approxidate 2.years.3.months.ago '2007-05-30 19:20:00'