----- Forwarded message from Guenter Knab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Sorry for pasting the wrong subject on Wed, 13 Feb 2002 00:25:17 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:10:35AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:46:01AM +0100, G|nter Knab wrote: > *snipped* Thanks for the explanation! Now I try to reformulate my question so precise as you answer:) On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:38:10 -0800 ben wrote > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001 That _is an invalid_ date, see: touch -t 200104000000 date.ben touch: invalid date format `200104000000' The file (a block special file with no attached hardware, as i think) has an valid date entry in its inode, the disc is ok. I think there was an problem in his software: # modification time find /dev/filename -printf "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" # status change time find /dev/filename -printf "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" # access time find /dev/filename -printf "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" touch the file with the shown date (subtracting your TZ), you should get something around the 1. april (no joke:) What backup software do you use? May there is the problem? --gk I have just played around: touch date.now touch -t 197001010000 date.myepoch touch -t 197001010100 date.theepoch touch -t 196912310000 date.dman ls -l date.* -rw-r--r-- 1 gk users 0 Feb 12 23:31 date.now -rw-r--r-- 1 gk users 0 Jan 1 1970 date.myepoch -rw-r--r-- 1 gk users 0 Jan 1 1970 date.theepoch -rw-r--r-- 1 gk users 0 Dec 31 1969 date.dman find date.* -printf "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" date.now Tue Feb 12 23:31:32 2002 1013553092 date.myepoch Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 -3600 date.theepoch Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970 0 date.dman Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 1969 -90000 date --iso-8601=seconds 2002-02-12T23:40:37+0100 # the -3600 seconds above are my timezone UTC-1: date --iso-8601=seconds --utc --reference=date.myepoch 1969-12-31T23:00:00Z this is "the epoch" (zero seconds): date --iso-8601=seconds --utc --reference=date.theepoch 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message -----
