It is a Unix standard to keep track of date and time as seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. In timezones west of London, this is some time on 1969-12-31.
For whatever reason the creation time may have been set to 0 (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC) or -1 (1969-12-31 23:59:59 UTC). Perhaps they were tar'd or otherwise operated on with an invalid file format string; trying `tar --mtime=test-invalid-date-string -f test.tar file` I got the following error: tar: Substituting 1969-12-31 16:00 for unknown date format `test-invalid-date-string' This is Unix time 0 as interpreted in my timezone. I doubt this has any security implications, though perhaps there's an error in a script that prepares these files and folders. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 13:29, sharedwd <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running a Motorola Droid with 2.1-update1 installed. > > Why are some of the phone's folders "proc" and "sys" and "sbin" listed > as being created 12/31/1969? It's the same with the following files > too and I don't know what these are: init, default.prop, > initi.goldfish.rc, init.rc, and init.sholes.rc > > Thoughts? > > Jim >
