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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | lib/mdate-sh | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ New in ?.?.?: build, the build sub-directory defined by AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is now properly created. (automake bug#27781) + - The time printed by 'mdate-sh' is now using the UTC time zone to support + the reproducible build effort. (automake bug#20314) + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New in 1.15.1: diff --git a/lib/mdate-sh b/lib/mdate-sh index f80075c04..b6a116f92 100755 --- a/lib/mdate-sh +++ b/lib/mdate-sh @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh # Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it. -scriptversion=2016-01-11.22; # UTC +scriptversion=2017-09-15.09; # UTC # Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995 @@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ export LC_ALL LC_TIME=C export LC_TIME +# Use UTC to get reproducible result. +TZ=UTC +export TZ + # GNU ls changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE # variable. Since we cannot assume 'unset' works, revert this # variable to its documented default. |