SOURCE DATE EPOCH
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SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is a technique for dealing with the "timestamp problem" that often complicates attempts to produce byte-for-byte reproducible software builds. It was designed primarily by the maintainers of Debian Linux.
The standard defines a SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable, containing a timestamp (in Unix time form), which tools are expected to use instead of other sources of timestamps.
