bug#51609: closed (version.texi UPDATED field does not account for timezone; can cause unnecessary documentation rebuilds, which could fail)

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timezone;  can cause unnecessary documentation rebuilds, which could fail
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #51609,
regarding version.texi UPDATED field does not account for timezone; can cause 
unnecessary documentation rebuilds, which could fail
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> version.texi UPDATED field does not account for timezone; can cause unnecessary documentation rebuilds, which could fail
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> Fri, 5 Nov 2021 06:01:44 -0500
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> The method by which automake decides to regenerate version.texi and thereby to 
> regenerate texinfo-based documentation is flawed because it does not account 
> for the fact that the user's timezone may be different from the developer's 
> timezone. The version.texi UPDATED and UPDATED-MONTH fields do not specify a 
> timezone. If configure has been modified and if the user's timezone is 
> sufficiently different from the developer's, then UPDATED or less frequently 
> UPDATED-MONTH may change even though the texinfo sources' timestamps have not, 
> which will cause an unnecessary documentation rebuild, which may fail. For a 
> build failure that was caused by this flaw, see:
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> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63570#comment:5
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