Hi,
Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Dienstag, 31. März 2015, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > So where is the difference between
> >
> > * setting all files in a binary package to the time stamp defined by
> > the package's changelog entry, and
> >
> > * running a build under a timezone defined by the package's changelog
> > entry -- or under UTC?
>
> builds are run in arbitrary timezones, that's the problem to tackle here.
Sure. So what speaks against running package builds with TZ=UTC being
set? (As the changelog entry only contains the offset, not the actual
timezone name or abbreviation.)
~ → ls -ld .
drwxr-xr-x 170 abe abe 12288 Mar 31 12:48 ./
~ → env TZ=UTC ls -ld .
drwxr-xr-x 170 abe abe 12288 Mar 31 10:48 .
Regards, Axel
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