Version Strings - doesn't show recent edits

[Hal Murray]

I consider the current setup to be close to useless.  If I go through the 
typical edit, build, test cycle, the string doesn't get updated so I can't 
tell if I'm running the version from git or something with local 
modifications.

I gather there is a constraint from distros.  They want the binaries they 
ship to be identical to what you would get it you pulled their sources and 
built your own.  That means we can't use __DATE__ or __TIME__.

Will the distros be happy if we have a configure option (default off) to use 
the build time?

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There is another worm in this can: issue #268
  Waf uses current date and time breaking repro builds

> That time stamp is only used by the NMEA driver. I assume it's trying to
> recover from the GPS 1024 week rollover. I'd be happy to throw all that code
> out and tell people to use GPSD if they have a device that old.



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