Emacs 64-bit ahead of its time: clock skew

Markus Hoenicka markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de
Thu Jul 31 13:55:00 GMT 2014


Am 2014-07-31 15:50, schrieb Nellis, Kenneth:
>> From: Markus Hoenicka
>> 
>> Good catch. We're using roaming profiles here, so my home dir is on 
>> some
>> network drive. If I re-run the test on a local disc, I get the
>> following:
>> <snip>
>> That is, no time difference. But why does the network drive affect 
>> only
>> emacs and not touch?
> 
> The primary purpose of touch is to set the file's timestamp to that of
> the local computer. Emacs is just creating a file, so the timestamp is
> that of the computer that hosts the file, in this case, the server.
> 
> --Ken Nellis

Thanks for your explanation. Things like that are easier to deal with if 
I understand what's going on.

regards,
Markus

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