[Reproducible-builds] [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2] Reproducible U-Boot build support, using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

[Fabio Estevam]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

> This commit breaks the following commit:
>
> commit f3f431a712729a1af94d01bd1bfde17a252ff02c
> Author: Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com>
> Date:   Sun May 10 21:02:09 2015 +1200
>
>     Makefile: Add U_BOOT_TZ and include in version
>
>     Define U_BOOT_TZ alongside U_BOOT_TIME and U_BOOT_DATE and use it to
>     include the timezone in the version output.
>
>     Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com>
>
> Before this commit I have:
> U-Boot 2015.07-00345-g9c57487 (Jul 31 2015 - 10:49:31 +0800)
>
> After this commit I have:
> U-Boot 2015.07-00346-gf3f431a (Jul 31 2015 - 02:50:54 +0000)
>
> As you see: the timezone information is missing, and U-Boot's
> timestamp is now GMT+0 (the correct one should be GMT+8)
>
> Is this intended behavior? Or if not, please fix it.

I notice the same behavior here and I agree it would be nice to fix this.

Thanks