On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Well, since this is the Internet... > > Leo Famulari 写道: > > The timestamps are reset to "zero" (the first date possible on Unix > > systems) as part of Guix's efforts to build everything reproducibly. > > The manual does claim as much (in (guix)Binary Installation) but it's never > been true: > > $ stat -c %Y /gnu/store/arbitrary.file > 1 Right, I meant "zero", not 0. As you point out, it's not practical to actually set the timestamps to zero seconds.