X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; 	charset="us-ascii"
Subject: File creation time oddity
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:55:08 +0200
Message-ID: <387E9FC1619C0849BA8934938037E54F0F5E29@sv-muc-004.venyon-mail.local>
From: "Ronald Fischer" <ronald DOT fischer AT venyon DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l7GF1xYn026784

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
-- 
Ronald Fischer <ronald DOT fischer AT venyon DOT com>
Phone: +49-89-452133-162

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/