From: gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de (Gunther Ebert) Subject: Re: Bad date stamp problem (again) 12 Jun 1997 22:38:58 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33A00052.273.cygnus.gnu-win32@ixos-leipzig.de> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 32 DOT 19701231160000 DOT 015c8160 AT awesome DOT nuance DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: JP Shipherd Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, I guess there is something wrong with your CMOS clock. My mail tool reports that your message was sent on 31 Dec 1969. It seems at least that we don't have to deal with a cygwin-related problem. Gunther JP Shipherd wrote: > > 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 > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". -- Gunther Ebert iXOS Anwendungs-Software GmbH Angerstrasse 40-42 D-04177 Leipzig Phone : +49 341 48503-0 Fax : +49 341 48503-99 E-mail: mailto:gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de www : http://www.ixos-leipzig.de - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".