Use ChangeLog date instead of build date #662
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in order to make builds reproducible.
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.
This date call works with GNU date and BSD date.
Also use UTC/gmtime to be independent of timezone.
This PR was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE.