On Monday 17 January 2005 10:56, Eric Siegerman wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:45:18AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> So I'm puzzled as to whether I'm still doing something wrong, or
>> this new tar doesn't recognize the '-f... -' for the stdin from a
>> pipe option.
>
>That "..." is a placeholder for "x or t, with whatever other
>options you want, e.g. v"; you're not meant to type it literally.
>
>> /bin/gtar: ./.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/cdrom.desktop: time
>> stamp 2020-04-27 15:36:21 is 482063157 s in the future
>
>Do the original files have the same bad timestamps?  That'll
>determine whether this is really a bug or version incompatibility
>in tar, or just a case of shooting the messenger...

Well, since both versions show the same errors, I'd have to assume the 
error is real in the files themselves.  I have years old messages in 
my inbox here that carry dates in the middle of the 2020's because of 
that.  But TBT, I haven't looked at the specific files mentioned 
either.

This system has been known to have a totally bogus clock for an hour 
or so after a crash, so much so that I now have a call to ntpdate 
-settime in my rc.local file, to crash set the clock correctly, and 
thats been working pretty good as long as the bootup can find the 
module eth0 needs called 'forcedeth' and I have networking.

-- 
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