[PATCH] Make output of mdate-sh deterministic
Reiner Herrmann <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.alioth.reproducible-builds,gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches |
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mdate-sh pretty-prints the modification time of a file. But it's output can vary depending on the timezone of the caller. Someone in timezone GMT-12 will get a different result (day) than someone in timezone GMT+12. As this output is also used to create/update stamp files, which influence the further build process, the build result can vary. To enable reproducible builds and to have a more deterministic build behavior, this change fixes the timezone to UTC. Signed-off-by: Reiner Herrmann <[email protected]> --- lib/mdate-sh | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/mdate-sh b/lib/mdate-sh index b793600..3e7d6ae 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=2010-08-21.06; # UTC +scriptversion=2015-04-09.19; # UTC # Copyright (C) 1995-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper-uOfJb789lUI8qNwGfFDJ/[email protected]>, 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. -- 2.1.4