On Mon, May 09, 2005, Christoph Bugel wrote about "Re: undeterministic zip?":
> >what the fsck is going on?! is gzip adding some odd time stamp or
> >something?!
> 
> Indeed. Seems to be fixed with gzip -n

Exactly. Read RFC 1952 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1952.html) if you want
to learn more about gzip's format. Specifically,

        "... If the compressed data did not come from a file, MTIME is set
         to the time at which compression started.  MTIME = 0 means no time
         stamp is available."

-n indeed assures that the time stamp (and name) isn't saved.

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