It took me a white to undertand where the date problem was, but I think you're referring to this:
# Commands run in *one* big line so that date discrepancies are minimized cd <some safe dir> rm -f *.zoo *.bak *.txt; \ touch -d "2000-02-01 01:01:00" 1-oldest.txt; \ touch -d "2000-03-01 01:01:00" 2-newest.txt; \ date +"# now: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"; \ zoo -add archive.zoo *.txt > /dev/null ; \ ls -la | grep -Ev 'total| [.]' ; \ zoo -list *.zoo # now: 2013-05-28 10:25:22 -rw-r--r-- 1 user src 0 2000-02-01 01:01 1-oldest.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 user src 0 2000-03-01 01:01 2-newest.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 user src 240 2000-02-29 00:01 archive.zoo Archive archive.zoo: Length CF Size Now Date Time -------- --- -------- --------- -------- 0 0% 0 1 Feb 00 01:01:00+64 0000 1-oldest.txt 0 0% 0 1 Mar 00 01:01:00+64 0000 2-newest.txt -------- --- -------- --------- -------- 0 0% 0 2 files NOTES The date of the *.zoo archive is not the current date it was created, but taken somehow from the date of the file that was added to it. This looks characteristics to zoo; This also happens with options -update and -freshen. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1090290 Title: zoo creates archives with wrong date and time on the filesystem To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zoo/+bug/1090290/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs