The engineer who wants the build to be reproducible and the engineer who wants to have the build time in the compiled binary may not be the same person.
The engineer who wants the build to be reproducible and the engineer who wants to have the build time in the compiled binary may not be the same person.
Sure, but that is a completely different issue. People have mutually-conflicting goals on occasion. That is a Thing That Happens, but it is a very different phenomenon than being surprised by the obvious fact that putting a time stamp on your build makes that build non-reproducible.