That's the epoc date; it's supposed to be that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:17 PM, wrote:
> When using 'touch' to reset the date of a file, I just discovered that I
> cannot set a date earlier than 1969. What is the reason for that
> limitation? and is t
When using 'touch' to reset the date of a file, I just discovered that I
cannot set a date earlier than 1969. What is the reason for that
limitation? and is there any way around it?
touch -t 6907010101 filename works okay ...however,
touch -t 6807010101 filename will not work.
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