Re: fixing date stamp on files

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Tue 05 Oct 1999, Ron Farrer wrote:
> 
> I recently upgraded to a 2.2.12 kernel and the clock got screwed. One time it was 1903 and another time it
> was > 2000 (2019 and 2038). What would be the best method of finding files with incorrect dates and
> changing them?

Try something like

    find / -mtime -0 -o -mtime +11000 | xargs touch

-mtime -0 will catch all files modified in the future,
-mtime +11000 will catch all files modified more than 30 years ago.
Touch will then modify the timestamp to "now".

Paul Slootman
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