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authorAlyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>2021-01-10 07:13:44 +0000
committerAlyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>2021-01-12 14:07:16 +0000
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diff --git a/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh b/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh
index 839757945a2b..d19ed342aab0 100644
--- a/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh
+++ b/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh
@@ -219,12 +219,13 @@ printWords() {
 # Initialisation.
 
 
-# Set a fallback default value for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, used by some
-# build tools to provide a deterministic substitute for the "current"
-# time. Note that 1 = 1970-01-01 00:00:01. We don't use 0 because it
-# confuses some applications.
+# Set a fallback default value for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, used by some build tools
+# to provide a deterministic substitute for the "current" time. Note that
+# 315532800 = 1980-01-01 12:00:00. We use this date because python's wheel
+# implementation uses zip archive and zip does not support dates going back to
+# 1970.
 export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
-: ${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH:=1}
+: ${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH:=315532800}
 
 
 # Wildcard expansions that don't match should expand to an empty list.