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Subject:	File creation time oddity
Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:55:08 +0200
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From:	"Ronald Fischer" <ronald DOT fischer AT venyon DOT com>
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On my system, the initial (creation) time for a file
seems to be around 7 minutes shifted to the past.
This is reproducible:

~/thome/tmp $ date
Thu Aug 16 16:49:18     2007
~/thome/tmp $ ls -l dummy3
ls: cannot access dummy3: No such file or directory
~/thome/tmp $ echo x >dummy3
~/thome/tmp $ date
Thu Aug 16 16:49:35     2007
~/thome/tmp $ ls -l dummy3
-rw-r--r-- 1 rfischer mkgroup-l-d 2 Aug 16 16:42 dummy3

As you can see, ls -l shows 16:42 for the creation time, when
it was actually created around 16:49. This problem does NOT
occur with file modification time:

~/thome/tmp $ date
Thu Aug 16 16:51:12     2007
~/thome/tmp $ touch dummy3
~/thome/tmp $ ls -l dummy3
-rw-r--r-- 1 rfischer mkgroup-l-d 2 Aug 16 16:51 dummy3


Any idea what could possibly be the reason for this oddity? 

Ronald
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