Bug#780259: perl: please make the output of Pod::Man reproducible

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> writes:
> > The patch is fine for building packages in Debian -- but I think,
> > users using Debian's Pod::Man for their own projects will partially be
> > confused by UTC times, especially those users not living in Europe or
> > Africa, i.e. close to the GMT timezone.
[...]
> Since this is used only to generate a date, not a timestamp,

Sorry, I missed that fact when opposing against that patch.

> I think the maximum "error" is for the date to be off by about 14
> hours, which, given how this software is used, is rarely going to be
> significant.

Indeed. There's still chance for confusion, but it's much lower than I
initially thought.

		Regards, Axel
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