_DATE__, version string, and distros

[Eric S. Raymond]

Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be>:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 06:41:01PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> > I think we can kill two birds with one stone.
> > 
> > The first step is to change the code that uses __DATE__ to use the time stamp 
> > from autorevision.
> 
> Have you seen
> https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ ?

Interesting idea.  But I don't see how it solves our problem unless
we can count on every packager to set this variable.  Which ones do?
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