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Re: Dates set to Dec 31 1969
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David Thompson |
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Re: Dates set to Dec 31 1969 |
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Sat, 27 Sep 2014 09:30:50 -0400 |
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Nate Bargmann <address@hidden> writes:
> As much as I'd like to be six years old again in some aspects, I'm
> curious why most of the dates under /gnu/store and under ~/.guix-profile
> are set to Dec 31 1969? Yes, I know that this is just before the
> beginning of the Unix epoch, which must figure into the equation in some
> way.
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> If this is in the FM, I apologize for the noise as I haven't completed
> the manual yet.
>
This is by design in order to have more deterministic builds. If two
files have the same contents but have different timestamps, then they
will have different hashes.
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