yes a suse machine. I think I've half fixed it but the clock is suddenly showing the wrong date and time (15:50 10/10/2004).
(manually typing the output seen on the suse machine now) date: Mon Oct 11 11:46:04 NZDT 2004 ls -l /etc/localtime: -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 882 2004-04-06 12:09 /etc/localtime -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 October 2004 11:42 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: date modified info is wrong? suse isn't it? run the date command and get back to us, as well as ls -l /etc/localtime On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:40:16 +1300 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh oh... time zone is screwed up on the notebook. So that's part of the > answer. (now I'm struggling to fix that - I'll get there!) > > It's good to know I'm not going nuts here, and that this is partly > unfixable. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 October 2004 11:30 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: date modified info is wrong? > > > > > Yes, kbear is an ftp client, I was trying to maximise my "linux time" to > get > > log files from our isp and put on a windows machine, the only way I could > do > > that was to copy them from kbear and paste into the windows share. (so > yes > > to that question, by smb path I ought to have more clearly said "windows > > share"). > > > > The time on all machines (and time zones) is correct. Presumably so is > that > > of the isp server. The date modified view from a windows machine > correctly > > shows one file per day (as it always has). Simultaneously the view from > > konqueror is as I've noted above. > > > > I'm now looking at several other folders on windows shares from konqueror, > > they all seem to have a date modified of either last friday or today. I > > can't quite determine what the connection between them is - it seems that > > file types differ by the TIME they are modified, ie all html files are > 1:36, > > all doc files at 2:17. > > > > Files on the local machine don't help clarify what's going on either. It > > appears that often folder modified dates are actually created dates, but > not > > always. > > > > Very strange... > > > > I think Volker's reply is pretty informative, if ultimately unhelpful > (in that it doesn't really offer a solution to what seem to be pretty > fundamental problems) > > what dates/times do you get from the command line, ie smbmount the share > and do ls -l? > > might fire up the laptop (the only linux desktop machine at the office) > and do some investigation at lunch time. > > don't forget that unix understands a number of times in relation to > files - created, modified, accessed at least. you sure you are looking > at modified in konqueror? I am not sure how these are translated by > samba. > > > > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
