Re: Wierd NFS problem

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
10 Jan 1999 00:03:39 +0100

In article <cistron.36964AC9.267D2D24@numerix.com>,
Greg Whalin <gwhalin@numerix.com> wrote:
>Basically, what happens is that I am losing file modification times in
>ls output. Here is how I reproduce ...
>
>> ls -l
>-rw-r--r-- 1 gwhalin users 512 Jan 08 12:34 sample.txt
>
>I then edit the file with vi ... make some changes and save. Then, I
>check ls ..
>
>> ls -l
>-rw-r--r-- 1 gwhalin users 545 Jan 08 1999 sample.txt

This happens if the clocks of the different servers are not synchronized.
If you have a file whos modification time is in the future, ls will
behave like this. Observe:

$ touch foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 miquels staff 0 Jan 10 00:01 foo
$ touch --date="05:00" foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 miquels staff 0 Jan 10 1999 foo

Mike.

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