Hi Alexis,

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 06:24:10PM +0200, Alexis Bienvenüe wrote:
> Looking at debian package canl-c, I saw it uses \today in the
> documentation LaTeX files, so that it can't build reproducibly.
> I also heard about gle-graphics [1], which has to be patched to give a
> fixed value to \today.
> 
> Can we consider turning LaTeX into using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (when
> available) as \today's epoch?

to make sure this aint forgotten: we've discussed this sufficiently on irc
and it's clear what needs been doing here, it "just" needs doing, correct?

And the plan is to make \today use S_D_E if S_D_E is set and else use
todays date.


-- 
cheers,
        Holger

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