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Thanks for your work! I've been wondering -- why do compiled binaries actually include timestamps? For human-readable stuff, I sort of understand, but for bina

Thanks for your work! I've been wondering -- why do compiled binaries actually include timestamps? For human-readable stuff, I sort of understand, but for binaries I don't see we'd want to include timestamps.

revelation 12y ago
I guess it's related to debugging purposes. If you know when a binary was built, you know that a source file X with a changetime later than the build is different to the source file used for building the binary.