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From: John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
To: Martin Michel <martin@famic.de>
Cc: Help-Guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:56:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8366eeb1-3cd0-435d-9cf5-fab3afb839bf@Johns-iPhone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201021155354.r5iinhpzoxk2yqev@remote.famic.de>

     Hello and welcome Martin! 

 
The Unix time stamp is set to 0 for one thing to ensure reproducible builds. If two build artifacts suffered in time stamps, they would be considered different.
 

 
Hope you find guix helpful and hackable,
 

 
John
     

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-21 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-21 15:53 Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01 Martin Michel
2020-10-21 17:56 ` John Soo [this message]
2020-10-21 17:56   ` John Soo
2020-10-21 17:58 ` Wiktor Żelazny
2020-10-21 18:05 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-10-21 19:58   ` Martin Michel
2020-10-21 20:23     ` John Soo

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