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authorBernhard M. Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.de>2017-01-25 06:15:40 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2017-01-26 15:21:41 (GMT)
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cmTimestamp: Support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to override current time
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good and https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ for the definition of this variable.
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@@ -329,6 +329,12 @@ If no explicit ``<format string>`` is given it will default to:
Write a string which can be used as an identifier in C.
+.. note::
+
+ If the ``SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`` environment variable is set,
+ its value will be used instead of the current time.
+ See https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ for details.
+
UUID
""""