<!--IssueSummary start--> <details> <summary> Everyone can contribute. [Help move this issue forward](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relations/contributor-success/community-contributors-workflows/#contributor-links) while earning points, leveling up and collecting rewards. </summary> - [Close this issue](https://contributors.gitlab.com/manage-issue?action=close&projectId=278964&issueIid=19848) </details> <!--IssueSummary end--> Annotated tags have a created date, but simple tags do not. We correctly use the created date for annotated tags, but the committed date is misleading for annotated tags. ### Proposal Use `authored_date` for simple tags ### Original report Zendesk ticket: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/83757 A customer is saying that the `authored_date` on a tag currently shows when the commit the tag points to was created, instead of when the tag itself was authored. >I'd like to submit a bug saying that this could be explained more explicitly, since an annotated tag will contain a lot of the same data (author name, date, and so on) a commit would. >At the same time, I'd also like to request a feature for GitLab to let me get the creation date of tags which has this information (like annotated tags). >My sincere apologies for the ambiguity! =) >(But I would submit that it's easy for human eyes to glass over the fact that 'authored_date' is inside the 'commit' JSON dict/map when reading your example on the link I provided). He linked here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/tags.html /cc @jramsay