Re: Why does ls report some directory dates as future?

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 11:42 AM 10/18/2000, Don Sharp wrote:
>I got no reaction to my previous submission so I am again seeking
>comments, reasons, references, which will explain why
>when I did an "ls -l" in / I got dates in the future which the NT dir
>command says are current.
>
>total 71
>drwxr-xr-x  19 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosc     <<<
>drwxr-xr-x   6 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosn     <<<
>drwxr-xr-x   6 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosi     <<<
>drwxr-xr-x   6 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosh     <<<
>drwxr-xr-x  28 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosf     <<<
>drwxr-xr-x   6 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosd     <<<
>-rw-r--r--   1 don      None         3550 Oct 17 18:22 setup.log
>-rw-r--r--   1 don      None        34578 Oct 17 18:22 setup.log.full
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 don      None           48 Oct 17 18:22 cygwin.bat
>-rw-r--r--   1 don      None          766 Oct 17 18:22 cygwin.ico
>drwxr-xr-x   3 don      None            0 Oct  5 15:26 home
>-rw-r--r--   1 don      None         4588 Sep 29 16:02
>READMEopengl-1.1.0-2.txt
>-rw-r--r--   1 don      None            0 Sep 29 14:24 d_context
>drwxr-xr-x  11 don      None         4096 Sep 26 20:35 dosj
>drwxr-xr-x   4 don      None            0 Sep 26 20:22 var
>drwxr-xr-x   2 don      None            0 Sep 26 20:22 bin
>drwxr-xr-x   2 don      None            0 Sep 26 20:22 tmp
>drwxr-xr-x   5 don      None            0 Sep 26 20:22 lib
>drwxr-xr-x   4 don      None            0 Sep 26 17:32 etc
>drwxr-xr-x   4 don      None            0 Sep 26 17:26 cygwin
>drwxr-xr-x   2 don      None            0 Sep 26 17:06 RECYCLED
>drwxr-xr-x  14 don      None            0 Sep 17 05:23 usr
>-rw-r--r--   1 don      None        91395 Nov 27  1999 po-mode.el
>
>whereas from a cmd window using "dir" I got
>
>  Volume in drive G is CYGWINPOSIX
>  Volume Serial Number is B8C9-9DAD
>
>  Directory of G:\
>
>26/09/00  17:26         <DIR>          cygwin
>26/09/00  17:32         <DIR>          etc
>26/09/00  20:22         <DIR>          bin
>26/09/00  20:22         <DIR>          lib
>26/09/00  20:22         <DIR>          tmp
>17/09/00  05:23         <DIR>          usr
>26/09/00  20:22         <DIR>          var
>17/10/00  18:22                    766 cygwin.ico
>17/10/00  18:22                 34,578 setup.log.full
>17/10/00  18:22                  3,550 setup.log
>29/09/00  14:24                      0 d_context
>27/11/99  21:51                 91,395 po-mode.el
>05/10/00  15:21                 65,693 .vimrc
>05/10/00  15:26         <DIR>          home
>05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosc
>05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosd
>05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosf
>05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosh
>05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosi
>05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosj
>05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosn
>13/10/00  21:39                  1,036 .bash_history
>29/09/00  16:02                  4,588 READMEopengl-1.1.0-2.txt
>17/10/00  18:22                     48 cygwin.bat
>               24 File(s)        201,654 bytes
>                               7,622,656 bytes free
>
>Note no dates in the future. Note that dosj has a different date too.
>
>Cheers
>
>Don Sharp



Hi Don,

If I had to guess as to why you got no responses before, I would say that
its probably because no one had an idea of why this happened to you.  I'll
make 4 suggestions if you want to follow up on this:

   1. Check if you can reproduce it in a set of simple steps.
   2. Make sure you're using the latest stuff.
   3. Try it with the latest snapshot.
   4. Include the output of cygcheck -s -r -v and the steps you took to 
      show this behavior in any further query to the list about this issue.

Good luck,


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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