Having the date there makes the build fail with the default distro build options:
/home/tjaalton/src/pkg-opencl/intel-graphics-compiler.git/visa/iga/IGALibrary/api/iga.cpp:620:62: error: macro "DATE" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time]
return IGA_VERSION_STRING "-" IGA_EXTERNAL_INTERNAL " (" DATE ")";
^~~~~~~~