* Makefile (set-timestamps.out): Use --date=format-local:..., not --date=format:..., because TZ is UTC0 and we want UTC not the committer’s local time. --- Makefile | 2 +- NEWS | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 5b05877c..079bb530 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ set-timestamps.out: $(EIGHT_YARDS) if git diff --quiet HEAD $$file; then \ time=$$(TZ=UTC0 git log -1 \ --format='tformat:%cd' \ - --date='format:%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' \ + --date='format-local:%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' \ $$file) && \ echo "+ touch -md $$time $$file" && \ touch -md $$time $$file; \ diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 071659c8..7a05aeb9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Changes to build procedure + Files in distributed tarballs now have correct commit times. + Formerly, the committer's time zone was incorrectly ignored. + Distribution products (*.asc, *.gz, and *.lz) now have reproducible timestamps. Formerly, only the contents of the compressed tarballs had reproducible timestamps. -- 2.48.1