[Bug-tar] tar writes invalid mtime for times before the epoch

2017-11-16 Thread Rodrigo Queiro
representation of the octal value of the last > time the file's contents were modified, represented as an integer number of > seconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time. > Thanks in advance, Rodrigo Queiro > date Thu Nov 16 13:31:44 CET 2017 > echo > tes

Re: [Bug-tar] tar writes invalid mtime for times before the epoch

2017-11-20 Thread Rodrigo Queiro
Thank you! FYI, there's a typo in 0003 - "concatenating" instead of "concatenated". On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Rodrigo Queiro wrote: > > I discovered this because Python's tarfile module fails to open such files >> with &qu