It seems that the static library archive 'liby.a' contains build time timestamps:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- diffoscope --exclude-command bin/stat /gnu/store/aqcpvkx93zbf1zr46qi5h1yf6a1cj9i1-bison-3.3.2{,-check} --- /gnu/store/aqcpvkx93zbf1zr46qi5h1yf6a1cj9i1-bison-3.3.2 +++ /gnu/store/aqcpvkx93zbf1zr46qi5h1yf6a1cj9i1-bison-3.3.2-check ├── lib │ ├── liby.a │ │ ├── file list │ │ │ @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ │ │ │ ----------- 0 0 0 26 2019-05-04 18:09:58.000000 / │ │ │ +---------- 0 0 0 26 2019-05-04 18:09:39.000000 / │ │ │ ?rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 2648 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000 main.o │ │ │ ?rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 4404 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000 yyerror.o --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---