Why does ls report some directory dates as future?

Wed Oct 18 08:50:00 GMT 2000

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
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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