Why is there a releaseDate?

[mkarp]

• Versions:

"electron-builder": "20.5.1",
"electron-packager": "^11.1.0",
"electron-publisher-s3": "^20.5.0",

• Target: macOS

When publishing a build with a command:

electron-builder --publish always -c.releaseInfo.releaseDate="2018-03-21T00:00:00.000Z"

the generated electron-builder.yaml contains the specified releaseDate, however in the generated latest-mac.yml the releaseDate is different. I assume it's the current timestamp, according to:

electron-builder/packages/electron-builder-lib/src/publish/updateInfoBuilder.ts

Line 185 in cec3069

const releaseDate = new Date().toISOString()

Is this a bug or the releaseDate configuration option has a different intent?

Thank you!

[develar]

Now releaseDate is not set if already set by user.

[mkarp]

@develar Thank you!