RE: File creation time oddity (new findings)

> > So the effect seems to be the same as before: As if a > different clock > > were used when calculating the time stamps for creating a file, or > > for modifying it. > > Hmm, could it be that your files reside on a remote mount, > and that NFS is > reflecting the time of the remote machine (i

Re: File creation time oddity (new findings)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Redirecting to the list - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE According to Ronald Fischer on 8/17/2007 1:46 AM: >>> ~/thome/tmp $ date >>> Thu Aug 16 16:49:35 2007 >>> ~/thome/tmp $ ls -l dummy3 >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 rfischer mkgroup-l-d 2 Aug 16 16:42

Re: File creation time oddity

Ronald Fischer venyon.com> writes: > ~/thome/tmp $ date > Thu Aug 16 16:49:35 2007 > ~/thome/tmp $ ls -l dummy3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rfischer mkgroup-l-d 2 Aug 16 16:42 dummy3 > > As you can see, ls -l shows 16:42 for the creation time, No idea why your ctime and mtime disagree - are you sure you

File creation time oddity

On my system, the initial (creation) time for a file seems to be around 7 minutes shifted to the past. This is reproducible: ~/thome/tmp $ date Thu Aug 16 16:49:18 2007 ~/thome/tmp $ ls -l dummy3 ls: cannot access dummy3: No such file or directory ~/thome/tmp $ echo x >dummy3 ~/thome/tmp $ dat