Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:23:48 +0100 (MET)
From: Jens Bischoff <Jens DOT Bischoff AT airbus DOT dasa DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Problems with Gnu File Utilities 3.16 for MSDOG
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Nimrod Alonzo Abing schrieb am 17.01.00 um 07:45 Uhr:

> drwxr-xr-x   6 dosuser  root          128 Nov  5 10:52 share
> drwxr-xr-x   3 dosuser  root          256 Nov 18 09:47 src
> drwxr-xr-x   2 dosuser  root           64 Nov  5 10:51 tmp
> 
> As you can see, the year reported for some files is wrong, especially for directories. 
> The date for some files are displayed as NN:NN instead of
> YYYY. 

Here is an extract from the "ls"-man page which explains this behaviour:

"        If the time of last modification is greater
         than six months ago, or any time in the future, the year is
         substituted for the hour and minute of the modification
         time.
"

Jens

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