[Reproducible-builds] Bug#787444: help2man: support externally-supplied --date for reproducibility

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2015-06-04 21:51:37 -0400, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> Local times, and daylight savings are just too much of a PITA.  Just
> use UTC and if builds on the first of the month are possibly different
> to the changelog, so be it.

I agree with Brendan here.

If there are no objections to the idea that we're sticking with ISO-8601
in UTC, preferably with the Z suffix (e.g. 2015-06-05T01:08:20Z) then we
just need to settle on what the right name is.

Lunar^, you'd mentioned that there had been discussions about a
preferred variable name that you might like better than SOURCEDATE.

Any preference?

Where should we document this?

      --dkg