Promote the default reproducible build date

[Holger Levsen]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 02:24:57PM +0200, Sergey Ponomarev wrote:
> The 1980-02-01 was chosen as a default reproducible date in many tools
> like Gradle and Maven (any others?).
> Could you mention it on the page
> https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/timestamps/
> We need to put rationale why the date was chosen to be a default.

but we did not choose 1980-02-01, you need to ask gradle or maven.

we recommend to either use no dates at all, or to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH,
which is the last modification of the source code, which is a somewhat
meaningful date.

another common chosen date is 1970-01-01 or rather epoch 0.


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cheers,
	Holger

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