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Bug#890734: texlive-metapost: mpost does not honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH



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Am 01.08.2019 um 15:26 teilte Hilmar Preuße mit:
> Am 01.08.2019 um 14:36 teilte Jerome BENOIT mit:
>> On 01/08/2019 15:10, Hilmar Preuße wrote:

Hi,

>>> We'd have to calculate human readable time and then split it into 
>>> strings to populate the variables,
>>
>> This far harder that it looks.
>>
>>  if we want to do it right...
>>
>> Anyway, I think the reverse must be done:
>> modify mp_{year,month,day,time} .
>>
> Sorry, I forgot to mention, that strftime() should be able to not
> just display the whole time string, but also just parts of it.
> Therefore it should be not that hard to populate
> mp_{year,month,day,time} and use it later on.
> 
Having said this I still repeat: I'm not a C programmer. Especially when
it comes to string manipulation I'm off. I could try to find a good C
lecture, but for know I prefer to tag that bug help in the hope anybody
volunteers to do the job.

H.
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