douglas.royds(a)taitradio.com wrote: Are you intending a SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to be a Unix time value? I.e., an integer? This value format needs to be documented. Unfortunately, your use of date -d is nonportable, it appears that only the GNU tools understand this option. It will fail on other platforms like *BSD, Solaris, that aren't using a GNU userland. Why can't you simply provide an already formatted date & time that can be used directly, instead of needing to be reformatted here? -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/