Please post the output of stat /tmp/TOOOLD.txt
# stat /tmp/TOOOLD.txt File: ‘/tmp/TOOOLD.txt’ Size: 9 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 805h/2053d Inode: 14 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2016-01-01 12:23:00.000000000 +0100 Modify: 2016-01-01 12:23:00.000000000 +0100 Change: 2016-07-16 15:21:28.806601066 +0200 Birth: -