RPM changelog date weirdness

[Peter Jones]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

And more specifically, the date in the specfile is interpreted as noon 
on that day, UTC.

-- 
   Peter