Exports: SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH stands in for the clock, so output repeats

PNG, PDF, EPS, legacy `.ai`, packaged zips and saved `.vectorcraft` files
record the wall-clock time they were made in, so the same commands run twice
gave different bytes although the pixels matched (#2880):

  PDF   /CreationDate and /ModDate   D:20261018155816 vs D:20261018155817
  PNG   the `Creation Time` tEXt entry
  .vectorcraft  one byte of the stored date
  SVG   carries no time, and already repeated

`metadata::output_time` is the time a file records: `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` when it
holds a non-negative whole number of seconds, else the clock, as the
reproducible-builds specification defines it. A date a command is given
(`file.new {created}`, a save's `modified`) still wins over the variable, and a
blank, negative or non-numeric value is ignored so that an export is never
refused over the environment.

`metadata::now_unix` keeps the real clock and now has exactly two callers, both
of which must not be pinnable from the environment: the recovery heartbeat, and
the seed PDF encryption draws on.
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Hamza
2026-10-19 00:37:55 +07:00
committed by bflatastic
parent c9a2491ef7
commit 1c80b23745
16 changed files with 88 additions and 15 deletions
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@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ pub(crate) fn date_param(p: &Value, key: &str, cmd: &str) -> Result<Option<Optio
/// no clock). It joins the running command's journal entry as `key`, so a replay of the journal
/// gives the same date whenever it runs (an action leaves it out: [`crate::Session::journal_for_action`]).
pub(crate) fn clock_date(s: &mut Session, key: &str, given: Option<Option<i64>>) -> Option<i64> {
let t = given.unwrap_or_else(vectorcraft_doc::metadata::now_unix);
let t = given.unwrap_or_else(vectorcraft_doc::metadata::output_time);
s.note_journal(key, serde_json::json!(t));
t
}