From: Till Harbaum <harbaum AT ibr DOT cs DOT tu-bs DOT de>
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Subject: Re: modfication time in the future ?
Date: 14 Feb 1998 20:08:38 +0100
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"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com> writes:

> Trond Erik Bones wrote:
> > I am using make to compile my program and I keep getting this error message :
> > 
> > ../lib/libdec.a ; has modification time in the future
> 
> This can occur if you edit a file and immediately rebuild it, due to the
> 2 second granularity of the MS-DOS datestamp.  In essence, if you save a

Another possibility (one i am often having trouble with) is having your
files stored on a file server. Since the file creation time is the
time of your file server, it may happen that the clock of your
pc is a little slower than the one on your file server. If the
pc creates a file and reads back its creation time, it'll 
get the file servers time which is a little ahead. Under unix
there is a special time protocol to synchnize clocks and to avoid
this problem. With my pc and the sunos server running samba
i did not know of a solution for this problem.

Ciao,
  Till