Norm Jacobs wrote:

> Without setting timestamps consistently across installations, tools that
> compare timestamps to determine what to do don't work at intended.  For
> example, make(1).  On a single installed environment, this generally
> isn't a problem.  When you want to distribute work across machines and/or
> use zones, the inconsistent timestamps can be a problem.

Could you give a more specific example?  It seems to me that if a file
changes on a machine, any target would immediately be out of date with
respect to that file, regardless of its timestamp, and so you'd want the
timestamp to reflect that -- have the current time.  It seems sketchy to
compare timestamps on individual files across systems, anyway.

Danek
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