From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) Subject: Re: [Q] really old file timestamps (e.g., circa 1915)? Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 18:55:29 GMT
hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks) writes:
>I know I read something about this at some point, but I can't
>find it now that I need to know it. How does one explain a
>timestamp of March 1, 1915 on a file? In particular, the most
>recent SLS release (w/ 0.99pl6) has some files
>(e.g., /usr/X386/lib/X11/twm/system.twmrc in the xother.tpz
>file of disk x6) with these old timestamps. Not that this is
>a problem, per se, but I'm wondering whether this leads to any
>other types of corruption.
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Isn't the "epoch" January 1st, 1970??
I always thought you couldn't have a file time further back in
time than that.(?)
Scott