RPM changelog date weirdness

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Sep 17 19:13:41 UTC 2007


Michael Schwendt (mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de) said: 
> The changelog times are not stored as date strings in the binary RPM
> header, but most likely are preconverted to ordinary time() values by
> rpmbuild, assuming arbitrary values for the missing h:m:s (possibly
> 0:0:0).

They're stored as seconds-since-the-epoch - see CHANGELOGTIMES
in an rpm query.

Bill




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