Peter Jones (pjones(a)redhat.com) said:
Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Michael Schwendt (mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam(a)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.
... which means you *shouldn't* be able to get an off-by-one-date, barring
being located in the South Pacific and weirdness with leap seconds.
Bill