Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:58:01 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1 Message-ID: <20060526105801.GE744@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20060526093443.GC94280@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <200605251845.k4PIjdx7070553@freefall.freebsd.org> <4476457A.5050800@alumni.rice.edu> <200605260837.k4Q8btpl031485@freefall.freebsd.org> <4476C99C.50200@alumni.rice.edu> <20060526093443.GC94280@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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On Fri, 2006-May-26 11:34:43 +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 jmz jmz 4312 Apr 16 1947 supclkrd.prg >Since there cannot be a date before January 1st 1970, 0:00 on >any Unix system, i guess there's something seriously broken here. Why do you say that? time_t is signed so it can represent a date prior to 1970. In theory, a file prepared on an earlier computer could have been transferred onto a Unix system whilst retaining its original modification time. In this particular case, the date seems unlikely. That said, it is a perfectly valid date and it would be nice if tar could support it - though tar(5) states dates before the epoch are not handled consistently. -- Peter Jeremy
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