[tor-bugs] #11506 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Users are confused by the 2000-01-01 00:00 UTC timestamp

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#11506: Users are confused by the 2000-01-01 00:00 UTC timestamp
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 Reporter:  lunar                                |          Owner:  tbb-
     Type:  defect                               |  team
 Priority:  Medium                               |         Status:  new
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |      Milestone:
 Severity:  Normal                               |        Version:
 Keywords:  tbb-helpdesk-frequent, tbb-gitian,   |     Resolution:
  TorBrowserTeam201601, GeorgKoppen201601        |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by boklm):

 I think there are different solutions:

 * we can use the time of the commit from `tor-browser-bundle.git`. The
 drawback is that we can't do partial rebuilds anymore, as any commit will
 change the timestamp used everywhere
 * we can use the time of the last commit on the gitian descriptor file.
 However, the descriptor files are not always changed between two releases
 * we can use the time of the last commit from one of the remotes specified
 in the descriptor (tor-browser.git for the firefox descriptor)
 * we can manually set a value for `REFERENCE_DATETIME` in
 `gitian/versions` and update it while preparing a new release

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