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

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #57218 (project groff):

[comment #4 comment #4:]
> I think groff should not write %%CreationDate into PostScript files it
creates.

This would be my preferred solution.  It's simplest to implement, and in most
cases, this field is merely repeating the timestamp of the PostScript file:
it's less common for PostScript code to be directly modified after its
creation, than for the files or commands that generated it to be modified and
rerun, updating both timestamps again to the same value.  (This is probably
even more true of gropdf but much less true of grohtml.)

But there didn't seem to be consensus around this solution in the 2014 email
thread referenced in comment #0.

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