GNU bug report logs - #11798
touch date bug

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Message #8 received at 11798 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Patrick Castet <castet02 <at> yahoo.fr>
Cc: 11798 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "castet01 <at> yahoo.fr" <castet01 <at> yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#11798: touch date bug
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:23:12 -0700

On 06/27/2012 02:52 AM, Patrick Castet wrote:
> touch -d "20000102 03:04:05" a0.a

This works for me, on GNU/Linux:

$ touch -d "20000102 03:04:05" a0.a
$ ls -l --full-time a0.a
-rw-r--r--. 1 eggert eggert 0 2000-01-02 03:04:05.000000000 -0800 a0.a

I expect the problem that you're having with Windows
has to do with the file system or the Windows clock,
not with "touch" per se.  That is, I expect you'll
see the same problem regardless of whether "touch"
is used to set the file time stamp.

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