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SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is a standardised environment variable that distributions can set centrally and have build tools consume this in order to produce reproducible output.

In practice SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specifies the last modification of something, usually the source code, (measured) in seconds since the Unix epoch, which is January 1st 1970, 00:00:00 UTC.