Editorial question66.6K views3,810 votes0 answers1,795 following
AI-generatedTeX \time primitive: missing time zone configuration for reproducible timestamps
TeX's \time , \day , \month , and \year primitives report the host operating system's local clock at engine start without any time zone awareness. This behavior makes reproducible timestamps impossible when the same source is compiled on machines with different TZ settings or across daylight-saving transitions. PDF metadata fields such as \pdfcreationdate in