--- a/debian/patches/reproducible_build.patch	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
--- b/debian/patches/reproducible_build.patch	2019-08-03 14:36:57.318059723 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Description: Make the build reproducible
+Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
+Last-Update: 2019-08-03
+
+--- virulencefinder-0.0+git20190402.4812325.orig/virulencefinder.py
++++ virulencefinder-0.0+git20190402.4812325/virulencefinder.py
+@@ -473,8 +473,8 @@ for db in results:
+ 
+ # Get run info for JSON file
+ service = os.path.basename(__file__).replace(".py", "")
+-date = time.strftime("%d.%m.%Y")
+-time = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
++date = time.strftime("%d.%m.%Y", time.gmtime(int(os.environ.get('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', time.time()))))
++time = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(int(os.environ.get('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', time.time()))))
+ 
+ # Make JSON output file
+ data = {service: {}}
--- a/debian/patches/series	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
--- b/debian/patches/series	2019-08-03 14:36:56.134042719 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+reproducible_build.patch