Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> writes: > As much as I'd like to be six years old again in some aspects, I'm > curious why most of the dates under /gnu/store and under ~/.guix-profile > are set to Dec 31 1969? Yes, I know that this is just before the > beginning of the Unix epoch, which must figure into the equation in some > way. > > If this is in the FM, I apologize for the noise as I haven't completed > the manual yet. >
This is by design in order to have more deterministic builds. If two files have the same contents but have different timestamps, then they will have different hashes. -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate
