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bug#18715: mdate-sh output is timezone dependant triggering rebuilds


From: Eric Blake
Subject: bug#18715: mdate-sh output is timezone dependant triggering rebuilds
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 05:58:20 -0600
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merge 18714 18715
tag confirmed
thanks

On 10/13/2014 08:51 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote:
> The output of mdate-sh depends on the local timezone used by the system
> which may trigger unneeded rebuilds in some situations (especially when
> the packaging machine and the building machine are on different timezones).
> 
> An example of such an issue can be found at
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520818

Thanks for the report.  Yes, we should fix mdate-sh to output results in
UTC, if it is easy to write portable shell to normalize dates (with GNU
date it is easy, but mdate-sh has to run on systems that lack GNU date).

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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