I just had to test this. Then I realized that what ls shows is influenced by
the timezone. My guess would be that when the file was created the hardware
clock was nearly zero.
Observe:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/misc> cat zt.c
/*
* What date is shown when the time value is zero?
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
time_t t;
char *p;
t = 0;
p = ctime( &t );
if ( p ) {
fprintf( stdout, "%s", p );
} else {
fprintf( stderr, "Failed in ctime\n" );
}
return 0;
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/misc> zt
Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/misc>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/misc> env TZ=XXX0YYY0 zt
Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/misc>
-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Richard Troth
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:57 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Wow, Now That's Reliability!
The date is internally held as a long integer, number of seconds since
"the epoch".
In this case, it probably wound up being set to -1 (the epoch being Jan
1, 1970), which is completely legal, so 'fsck' feels no need to change
it.
-- R;
"Scully, William P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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07/17/2007 08:30 AM
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Wow, Now That's Reliability!
Wow. The last failure was in 1969? That's reliability for you! :-)
usilws30:/var/log # pwd
/var/log
usilws30:/var/log # ls -l faillog
-rw------- 1 root root 32096 Dec 31 1969 faillog
usilws30:/var/log #
Hmm. On second thought perhaps the date-stamp is wrong. Anyone seen
this on ext3-format disks and if so, suggestions to correct this? A
file system check (via the "touch /forcefsck" technique) doesn't clean
up the dates.
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