Hi Andr,

> This does not work if SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set because the unnamed
> argument has with two '+' characters (one from DATE_FMT and one
> from the command line).

Mea culpa; I must have copy-pasted too hastily from my terminal to my
email editor (also causing the quotes and LC_ALL confusion) from a
previous iteration of my patch.

> Also DATE_FMT should be a singly expanded make variable.

(Singly, as in ":=" vs "=" ?)

> Care to provide a commit message which explains why we try to
> pass $(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) as an argument to both -d and -r, who
> sets SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, and what type its value is supposed to be
> (filename or number of seconds)?

In terms of a its value, probably best to canonically link to:

  https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

… although as a spoiler, it is a UNIX timestamp. :) Thanks for 
your review.


Regards,

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