On 4/14/21, akiki--- via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi,
> I encountered problems with the use of timestamps in cygwin.
> May be it's an old problem, I don't know, using essentially files "recently"
> created/modified.
>
>
> I want to say after 1970 No problem, but before ...
>
>
> To day:
> touch -m -t 190001011200.00 x gives touch: format de date « 190001011200.00
> » incorrect
> touch -m -t 190101011200.00 x gives ok - with ls -l x:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 1 janv. 1910 x

Do you have the 32 bit cygwin installed?  x86_64 Cygwin looks OK to me:

$ touch -m -t 190001011200.00 x

$ ls -l x
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Lee None 0 Jan  1  1900 x

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-10.0 i3668 3.1.7(0.340/5/3) 2020-08-22 17:48 x86_64 Cygwin

Regards,
Lee
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