Re: Old timestamps in the future?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gisle Vanem <gvanem@online.no>
> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 15:38:08 +0100
> 
> 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'.

It could mean that your timezone didn't have the date/time you used,
because the Epoch starts at 1970-01-01:00:00 UTC.