Ping! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg01547.html Support bit-for-bit reproducible generation of autoloads. See . Submitted on behalf of Alex Kost. * lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el (autoload-insert-section-header): Check whether the 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' environment variable is defined; use it as the TIME part of the 'autoloads' sexp when it is.