Re: Time stamp resolution

[Frank Küster]

Jason Pearce <address@hidden> wrote:

> Can someone please try the following for me
>
[...]
> Now thats from CYGWIN and it works as expected. From the other
> machines I get this
>
> england4% touch foo2 ; touch foo1 ; ls -lrt foo*
> -rw-r--r--    1 jasonp       games           0 Jan 24 17:04 foo2
> -rw-r--r--    1 jasonp       games           0 Jan 24 17:04 foo1
> england4% touch foo1 ; touch foo2 ; ls -lrt foo*
> -rw-r--r--    1 jasonp       None           0 Jan 24 17:04 foo2
> -rw-r--r--    1 jasonp       None           0 Jan 24 17:04 foo1
>  NOT what I'd expect.

I get the same on Debian Linux (woody+many backports)

$ touch foo2 ; touch foo1 ; ls -lrt --full-time foo*
-rw-r--r--    1 frank    frank           0 2005-01-25 09:06:14.000000000 +0100 
foo2
-rw-r--r--    1 frank    frank           0 2005-01-25 09:06:14.000000000 +0100 
foo1

I once had a case where a makefile relied on time stamps of files that
were created by a patch. On my system it worked, the second file in the
patch was always newer than the first one. On a faster system, the
timestamps were identical, as here.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer