my concerns about misdating files. I'll ask Aaron about your change and see if I get a reply. It makes sense to me, though it is quite a significant change from what was there before.
it certainly does for gnulib, where the dates are maintained individually. As I understood it, that's more because Bruno and you prefer to do it that way than because of any agreement in principle. That is, I had the impression that Jim would be happy(ier) if every file in gnulib was updated on Jan 1. karl