Adapted from . Make Pod::Man honor the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable. --- perl-5.22.0/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm 2015-12-12 22:33:03.321787590 +0100 +++ perl-5.22.0/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm 2015-12-12 22:36:33.367361338 +0100 @@ -884,7 +884,12 @@ sub devise_date { my ($self) = @_; my $input = $self->source_filename; my $time; - if ($input) { + + if (defined($ENV{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}) && + $ENV{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH} !~ /\D/) { + $time = $ENV{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}; + } + elsif ($input) { $time = (stat $input)[9] || time; } else { $time = time;