[PATCH v1 0/6] TIMESTAMP output section command

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, binutils@emagii.com wrote:

> The TIMESTAMP command inserts a QUAD-word entry with the current time
> into the image at the current location.
> The value is the number of seconds since the Epoch,
> 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC)

In the modern world of reproducible builds, embedding timestamps in output 
files is an antipattern and new instances of it should be avoided.  
Anything embedding a timestamp for legacy reasons needs to respect 
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (via using bfd_get_current_time, for example); anything 
new should not determine a timestamp itself but might use an identifier 
passed into the linker by a command-line option so it's the responsibility 
of an external build system to pass in the timestamp it wants to use if it 
wants to use one.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
josmyers@redhat.com