Source-code Merge Request #2: Drop build date to make package build reproducible (rejected)

See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.

When builds are reproducible, it is possible to recreate
identical binaries anytime anywhere, so it does not matter when
a binary was created.

This patch was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE.

[Bernhard M. Wiedemann]

Alternatively, we could use the POSIX template from https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/ to allow to override the date with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH- but if we want to support date implementations other than GNU date, this increased code complexity a bit.

[Solomon Peachy]

I'd much prefer this instead; it allows for reprodudible builds for situations where that matters, but otherwise I personally find these dates to be highly useful when it comes to debugging problems.

[Solomon Peachy]

I merged the other approach, so I'm going to close this one.