gnu tar opens tgz's with file times in the future

2002-12-31 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Hello, I'm gnu-tarring files with tar version 1.13.25 on solaris, then untarring with the same version on cygwin. The files are dated 2002-12-31 18:09:xx in the tgz on solaris. When I sftp them to cygwin, the tar programs shows the files to be dated 2003-01-01 03:09.xx. But typing date at the

SOLVED: gnu tar opens tgz's with file times in the future

2002-12-31 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I'm gnu-tarring files with tar version 1.13.25 on solaris, then untarring with the same version on cygwin. The files are dated 2002-12-31 18:09:xx in the tgz on solaris. When I sftp them to cygwin, the tar programs shows the files to be dated 2003-01-01