4 In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
5 process have to be set to a fixed value.
7 This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable which specifies
8 the number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.
13 To build the sandbox with 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z as timestamp we can use:
17 make sandbox_defconfig
18 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1672531200 make
20 This date is shown when we launch U-Boot:
22 .. code-block:: console
25 U-Boot 2023.01 (Jan 01 2023 - 00:00:00 +0000)
27 The same effect can be obtained with buildman using the `-r` flag.