On 2019-02-26, Mihai Popescu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying since a while to figure out the master site / mirrors > files timestamps. Here is the thing: I can see the timestamps on > master site, ftp.openbsd.org (let's skip the transfer protocol, like > ftp, http/https). > Are these timestamps the original from compilation time? I mean, does > they show when the files where compiled? Of course, that means that > timestamps must be preserved at copy action.
Unsure about base snapshots. For packages the timestamps are the time of signing. > If it is not the case, does those timestamps show the copy time? > What about mirrors, do they preserve file timestamps at copy time? *usually*. > Are the mirrors using the local time, or the UTC time? with >60 mirrors run by different people: it varies.
