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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:43:35 +0200
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From: Anton Helm <tony AT nt DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at>
Subject: Re: Make "Clock Skew" problem.
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At 10:00 04.05.98 +0100, you wrote:

>I've seen this problem a few times on my machine at work (p333, w95),
>and it prints "File has timestamp in the future" and then aborts.
>Running make again will work correctly, but it is slightly more than
>just a warning. I agree that "broken" is perhaps too strong a word, but
>it is annoying that I sometimes need to run make twice :-)

I have some other experiences with "File has timestamp in the future":

1) I frequently copy my source codes between my PC and a unix host by
means of SAMBA. I observed that the files I edited on the same day get
a timestamp of **several hours in the future** when being copied to the
unix host, while older file time stamps remain intact. This is either
a problem in SAMBA or in WinNT4.0 (which I'm using on the PC).
Running GNU make on the unix host will produce the above message.

2) The second case was rather esoteric. I haven't managed to reproduce it
yet but I have 3 witnesses whom I showed the following phenomenon:
The system clock of WinNT4.0 and the time used in a DOS-box had a difference
of 27 minutes, which resulted in the same error message. Rebooting the PC
removed the 27 minutes "skew".


A. Helm



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