Emacs 64-bit ahead of its time: clock skew

Nellis, Kenneth Kenneth.Nellis@xerox.com
Thu Jul 31 13:51:00 GMT 2014


> From: Markus Hoenicka
> 
> Good catch. We're using roaming profiles here, so my home dir is on some
> network drive. If I re-run the test on a local disc, I get the
> following:
> <snip>
> That is, no time difference. But why does the network drive affect only
> emacs and not touch?

The primary purpose of touch is to set the file's timestamp to that of
the local computer. Emacs is just creating a file, so the timestamp is
that of the computer that hosts the file, in this case, the server.

--Ken Nellis


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