> From: Gisle Vanem <gva...@online.no> > Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 15:38:08 +0100 > > Paul Smith wrote: > > > ... facilities that you don't specify (Cygwin? MinGW? WSL?) > > I'm using Cygwin as my POSIX toolbox. > > > But, note that touch writes timestamps in the current timezone by > > default. It could be that your timezone (which you also didn't > > specify) makes a difference, when you are talking about timestamps > > right at the edge of the epoch. > > > > If you force UTC, for example: > > > > $ TZ=UTC make > > > > does it make a difference in behavior? > > That was it; i.e. no 'has modification time'.
It could mean that your timezone didn't have the date/time you used, because the Epoch starts at 1970-01-01:00:00 UTC.
