>Does anyone know what this error message from a tar archive
>means? There is nothing in the man pages for tar on this.
>
>tar xvf rsnsw.tar
> studentships.html
> style_guide.html
> tar: Archive value 2872975643983 is out of time_t range
>-2147483648..2147483647
> talks_2000/
> talks_2000/talk_Blank.html
> ...etc...
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>It occurs for both t and x tar options. Is it complaining
>about some problem with a time stamp perhaps?
>The archive itself seems to have extracted OK.
My guess is that the tar format has been extended to 64-bit timestamps
but the upper 32 bits of timestamps in the archive (possibly created by
an older tar?) contain garbage which trigger this warning.
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