Bad date stamp problem (again)

root root@jacob.remcomp.fr
Fri Jun 13 03:49:00 GMT 1997


The date in your machine is WRONG or... your message took 28 years to arrive!!!
The date of your message is 31 December 1969...
Please verify your CMOS clock!!


> 
> I'm continuing to occasionally have problems with NULL date stamps even
> with beta 18.  Does anyone know the cause of this problem?
> 
> For example:
> 
> C:\TEMP>bash -login
> I'm in bash_profile!
> /TEMP> touch time-test
> /TEMP> ls -l time-test
> -rw-r--r--   1 Administ None            0 Dec 22 06:03 time-test
> /TEMP> exit
> logout
> 
> C:\TEMP>dir time-test
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 7801-87D5
> 
>  Directory of C:\TEMP
> 
> 06/11/97  11:04a                     0 time-test
>                1 File(s)              0 bytes
>                             154,254,336 bytes free
> 
> The strange thing is, bash seemed capable of reading dates fine yesterday.
> And it correctly reads dates of files that were written yesterday.  But if
> I touch a file today, bash thinks it was written in 1969.
> 
> I've seen this problem appear and disappear but I'm unsure of the cause.
> If anyone knows it'd really help with my makes....
> 
> Thanks,
> --jp
> 
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