On 9/5/26 12:29 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Jerome,
it appears that xelatex composes PDF files with a Creator field containing the date at composing time (without taking into account SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH). We can reproduce the issue as follows: $ SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 xelatex sample2e $ TZ=UTC pdfinfo sample2e.pdf | grep Creat
Karl Berry suggests to set FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1 in addition. Is that helpful? SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1 xelatex 1146748.tex (arm64-sid)hille@rasppi3:~$ TZ=UTC pdfinfo 1146748.pdf | egrep 'Creat|Prod' Creator: XeTeX output 1970.01.01:0000 Producer: xdvipdfmx (20260317) CreationDate: Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 UTC Hilmar
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Description: OpenPGP public key
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Description: OpenPGP digital signature
