I'd always store time in epochs. Seconds since 1/1/1970 GMT. The use of textual date strings instead of a epochs is one of the worst things I've seen from the C# way of doing things. I had often wondered why so many programs could have so much trouble with handling dates and times correctly..
Sent from my iPad > On Feb 16, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> > wrote: > > Hi Mono folks-- > > some good discussion has come up on the xamarin bugtracker about being > able to make builds using the mono toolchain reproducible: > > https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=26842 > > Jo Shields offered a one-liner fix to PEWriter.cs to allow the use of an > environment variable to fix the timestamp epoch, but made it clear that > more feedback is needed, so i'm raising it here: > > from: > > public DWORD TimeDateStamp = (uint)(DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, > 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc)).TotalSeconds; > > to: > > public DWORD TimeDateStamp = > Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("IKVM_WRITER_TIMESTAMP_EPOCH") != null ? > > uint.Parse(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("IKVM_WRITER_TIMESTAMP_EPOCH")) > : > (uint)(DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, > 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc)).TotalSeconds; > > (i'm not sure whether the integer number of seconds is the best form for > the environment variable, or whether it would be better to parse a > standard date string -- from debian's perspective, we can deal with > either, of course) > > And this still doesn't solve the secondary issue of the assembly GUID, > as Jo noted. > > Any thoughts about how to best enable binary-reproducible builds from > the mono toolchain if the invoker requests them? > > Regards, > > --dkg > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list