HELP !!! Problem with file timestamps updating "weird" during rsync data pull

Sean O'Neill sean at seanoneill.info
Wed Oct 16 19:27:01 EST 2002


At 12:10 PM 10/16/2002 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:36:10PM -0500, Sean O'Neill wrote:
> > The timestamp should match that of the system the data is pulled from 
> right
> > ?  Well, it doesn't from time to time.  The time stamp sometimes gets
> > updated as just "Oct 16 2002"
>
>This is what most unix systems display for a future date.  I'm guessing
>that the clocks on your systems are not in sync -- that the clock on the
>receiving end is behind the sending end, which causes files that have
>been recently modified on the sender to show up as having future dates
>on the receiving system.

Ahh, excellent point.  These systems aren't as tightly controlled as our 
development systems.  I'm not sure if NTP is setup or setup and running 
correctly.

Thanks, I'll check this out.


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