[Git][reproducible-builds/reproducible-website][master] clarify meaning by omitting stuff

[Holger Levsen (@holger)]

Holger Levsen pushed to branch master at Reproducible Builds / reproducible-website


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8d3ecd99 by Holger Levsen at 2022-03-30T01:33:59+02:00
clarify meaning by omitting stuff

Signed-off-by: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>

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- _docs/source-date-epoch.md


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@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ OTOH, one alternative we can agree with, that also avoids `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`, w
 
 [1](https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20150608/001823.html) and the surrounding messages describe the initial motivation behind this, including an evaluation of how different programming languages handle date formats.
 
-At present, we do not have a proposal that includes anything resembling a "time zone". Developing such a standard requires consideration of various issues:
+We do not have a proposal that includes anything resembling a "time zone". Developing such a standard requires consideration of various issues:
 
 Intuitive and naive ways of handling human-readable dates, such as the POSIX date functions, are highly flawed and freely mix implicit not-well-defined calendars with absolute time. For example, they don't specify they mean the Gregorian calendar, and/or don't specify what to do with dates before when the Gregorian calendar was introduced, or use named time zones that require an up-to-date timezone database (e.g. with historical DST definitions) to parse properly.
 



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