[rb-general] using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH with date

[Ximin Luo]

Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
> Hi
> 
> what is the best way to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH with date?
> 
> I found
> date ${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH/#/--date=}
> to be quite elegant, but it does not work with dash.
> 
> date --date=@${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH:-$(date +%s)}
> does work with dash and bash, but is not as nice.
> 
> Also there are longer variants like
> https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2/pull/196/files
> 
> that would not look nice when used in Makefiles.
> Can you think of better ways than these?
> And which one(s) should we recommend for patches we send upstream?
> 

Hi Bernhard, see https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsProposal#Reading_the_variable and feel free to edit this too.

I don't think there is a "nicer" way for shell than the 2nd one that you already found.

X

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