[bug #57218] [PATCH] Reproducible builds support is broken and embeds timezone

[Jim Avera]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #57218 (project groff):

Commenting as an ordinary user:

Please do not make groff ignore TZ.  That breaks user functionality (for
example \*(DT will be wrong around midnight when using -mm).

The build systems should simply run everything with TZ=UTC to make displays be
the same regardless of where the build executes.  

* What would people think if the date(1) command were modified to ignore the
locale?   The answer is exactly the same for groff.

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Also, as a user, I agree that timestamps or any other
possibly-privacy-sensitive info should not be be embedded in output files
unless there is a functional necessity.  I realize there was not consensus to
get rid of %%CreationDate in generated pdfs, but I wanted to express my
opinion.

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Thanks for listening

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