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[Mats Wichmann]

On 10/14/2018 01:09 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-10-13 at 23:15 -0400, Bill Deegan wrote:
>> Please take a moment to review this PR.
>>
>> "Allow to override build date with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH"
>> https://github.com/SCons/scons/pull/3221
>>
>> Besides allowing the shell environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to
>> override the datestamp embedded in the distribution package and the
>> documents, it's also altering the datestamp format from:
>>
>> From:
>> %Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S
> 
> Non-standard format.
> 
>> To:
>> %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> 
> ISO 8601 alternative, but not preferred.
> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> Using ISO 8601 for dates is always a good idea.

python even has isodate methods for producing such (one for dates, one
for datetimes, if I recall correctly)