diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix
index cf6e0bdb3d42..4cfecfccdbce 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ in python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     # cannot find their neighbours (e.g. pdflatex doesn't find mktextfm).
     # We can remove PATH= when those impurities are fixed.
     # TODO: Is this still necessary when using texlive?
-    sed -e "s|^ENV =.*|ENV = dict(XML_CATALOG_FILES='${docbook_xml_dtd_45}/xml/dtd/docbook/catalog.xml ${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/catalog.xml ${docbook_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook/catalog.xml', PATH='${lib.makeBinPath [ texlive coreutils gnused ]}')|" \
+    sed -e "s|^ENV =.*|ENV = dict(XML_CATALOG_FILES='${docbook_xml_dtd_45}/xml/dtd/docbook/catalog.xml ${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/catalog.xml ${docbook_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook/catalog.xml', PATH='${lib.makeBinPath [ texlive coreutils gnused ]}', **(dict(filter(lambda v: v[0] == 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', os.environ.items()))))|" \
         -e "s|^ASCIIDOC =.*|ASCIIDOC = '$out/bin/asciidoc'|" \
         -e "s|^XSLTPROC =.*|XSLTPROC = '${libxslt.bin}/bin/xsltproc'|" \
         -e "s|^DBLATEX =.*|DBLATEX = '${dblatexFull}/bin/dblatex'|" \
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ in python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
         -e "s|^EPUBCHECK =.*|EPUBCHECK = '${epubcheck}/bin/epubcheck'|" \
         -i asciidoc/a2x.py
   '' else ''
-    sed -e "s|^ENV =.*|ENV = dict(XML_CATALOG_FILES='${docbook_xml_dtd_45}/xml/dtd/docbook/catalog.xml ${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/catalog.xml ${docbook_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook/catalog.xml')|" \
+    sed -e "s|^ENV =.*|ENV = dict(XML_CATALOG_FILES='${docbook_xml_dtd_45}/xml/dtd/docbook/catalog.xml ${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/catalog.xml ${docbook_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook/catalog.xml', **(dict(filter(lambda v: v[0] == 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', os.environ.items()))))|" \
         -e "s|^XSLTPROC =.*|XSLTPROC = '${libxslt.bin}/bin/xsltproc'|" \
         -e "s|^XMLLINT =.*|XMLLINT = '${libxml2.bin}/bin/xmllint'|" \
         -i asciidoc/a2x.py