Re: Old timestamps in the future?

[Gisle Vanem]

Paul Smith wrote:

> ... facilities that you don't specify (Cygwin?  MinGW?  WSL?)

I'm using Cygwin as my POSIX toolbox.

> But, note that touch writes timestamps in the current timezone by
> default.  It could be that your timezone (which you also didn't
> specify) makes a difference, when you are talking about timestamps
> right at the edge of the epoch.
>
> If you force UTC, for example:
>
>    $ TZ=UTC make
>
> does it make a difference in behavior?

That was it; i.e. no 'has modification time'.

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