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Hamza 1c80b23745 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.
2026-10-19 00:37:55 +07:00
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