Re: Time offset

[Jim Meyering]

"Arnar Birgisson" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello..
>
> I'm having some trouble with touch 4.1. It seems that when in a certain
> directory, touching a file sets the file timestamp to the time five
> minutes ago (with no arguments). This doesn't happen all the time
> though, only in some directories. To illustrate the problem, consider
> the following:

That's probably because the clock of the computer from which your
~/workdir/stmvefur/sql directory is mounted is not synchronized
with the computer on which you ran the commands.

You should run e.g., xntpd to keep the client and server systems
synchronized.