title: is there any way to strip timestamp and date in a dll file in linux? is any tool available?
body: <p>I am trying to strip timestamp and date from a dll file.
  In detail :- I am trying make file as binary reproducible
  (Requirement :- whenever i clean and rebuild it ,the md5sum must match for the file)
  In the above case only a dll was mismatching everytime ,the reason was the time stamp and date were differing everytime
  so i tried the following
  c:\temp> ildasm /all /text file1.exe | find /v "Time-date stamp:" | find /v "MVID" > file1.txt</p>
  
  <p>c:\temp> ildasm /all /text file2.exe | find /v "Time-date stamp:" | find /v "MVID" > file2.txt</p>
  
  <p>c:\temp> fc file1.txt file2.txt</p>
  
  <p>Comparing files file1.txt and FILE2.TXT
  the values were matching
  so i found an equivalent in linux for Ildasm -> monodis
  I was able to get the same result but I was unable to reuse the file</p>
  
  <p>i tried to reassemble using ilasm but didnt work..</p>
  
  <p>is there any suggestions??</p>
  
  <p>Neil</p>