Re: Debian images and USB sticks

[Tiago Ilieve <tiago.myhro@gmail.com>]

Thomas,

On 5 May 2016 at 02:49, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> 1969 is a strange date for a Unix-ly system. The lowest possible file
> date is supposed to be 1 Jan 1970.

It ain't, if you consider timezones. For instance, I've created a file
with the unix timestamp set to epoch on a system configured with UTC:

$ date
Thu May  5 23:10:15 UTC 2016
$ touch -t 197001010000 file.txt
$ ls -lh file.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 vagrant vagrant 0 Jan  1  1970 file.txt

But when I look the same file on a system with a different timezone
(UTC-3 in this case), this is the result:

$ date
Thu May  5 20:11:22 BRT 2016
$ ls -lh file.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 myhro myhro 0 Dec 31  1969 file.txt

So, the timestamp on the file is right. What makes it strange is the
system when it calculates its offset based on the timezone.

Regards,
Tiago.

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