SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and timezone with FAT images

[Daniel Shahaf]

Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote on Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:35 +00:00:
> The most practical approach is to add to the build scripts
> export TZ=UTC
> (or UTC0)
>
> If it is a regional project, hardcoding that local timezone would also
> yield reproducible results.

Note that if you go down this road, you need to ensure the builder and
rebuilder have the same idea of when DST starts/ends, how many leap
seconds there have been, etc., otherwise there could be off-by-one
differences when trying to reproduce the timestamps.

I was going to say that's not very likely to happen in practice, but
according to tzdata 2021d Fiji cancelled DST entirely for 2021/2022,
so there have been around six months during which treating tzdata as
an implicit dependency could cause differences.

At any rate, +1 to using UTC if possible.

Cheers,

Daniel

> What is that "additional complexity" you speak of?
>
> Ciao
> Bernhard M.
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