Huge time difference between 'dir' and 'ls'

mwoehlke mwoehlke@tibco.com
Fri Aug 18 14:43:00 GMT 2006


Frank Fesevur wrote:
> I have a USB stick connected to my ADSL modem/router. I have mapped it 
> to a N-drive. When I do a 'dir' and 'ls' I have a time difference of 
> almost 19(!) years.  When I do the ls to the UNC, the file is date the 
> time the ls is executed :-S
> 
> Does anybody has a clue what goes wrong?

Yes, you forgot to say 'time*STAMPS*'. ;-)

It took me a few tries reading this to figure out what was intended... I 
kept thinking, 'it took ls 19 years to execute?!' :-)'

-- 
Matthew
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