Re: [nmh-workers] Reproducible build patch

[Ken Hornstein]

>On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:17:45 -0400, Ken Hornstein said:
>
>> DATE_FMT="%Y-%m-%d %T +0000"
>> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH="${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH:-$(date +s)}"
>> date=$(TZ=GMT0 date --date="@$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH" "+$DATE_FMT" 2>/dev/null ||
>date -u -r "$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH" "+$DATE_FMT" 2>/dev/null || date -u "+$DATE_FMT
>")
>>
>> I ... think that's right (note, I haven't tested it yet).  Everyone ok
>> with this?
>
>I doubt that's right - at least on Fedora, /usr/bin/date doesn't work that 
>way....

Um, isn't /usr/bin/date on Fedora GNU date?  If so, shouldn't the --date
option work?

--Ken