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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.bugs: 25-Jan-93 NFS mounts -- time
stamp pr.. by Thorbjoern Andersen@imad 
> Apparently, date stamping works incorrectly when setting  stamps
> explicitly, instead of inheriting the dates from the file system.
>  
> Touching a file yields a date of January 1 1970, which is somewhat
> incorrect.   I *think* this is date Zero, but why should that be?

1/1/70 was chosen to be the "epoch" for Unix filesystems.  All of the
timestamps used count in seconds from epoch to the current time.

(Some trivia: the values are stored in 4-byte longs, meaning that the
time system will break in the year 2038.)

> Anybody got any suggestions for circumventing this problem?

I suspect that one or more machines on your network are having problems
with their clocks.  Make sure that you are using the Network Time
Protocol on all of the machines on the network.  NTP was explicitly
designed to help keep distributed filesystem's timestamps correct
between machines sharing files.

Consult your System's Administration manuals....

-Chuck



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