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to: g00r00
from: Bjrn Wiberg
date: 2023-05-07 19:14:00
subject: GenerateAllFiles dates of

Hello g00r00!

I just noticed that the file dates in my GenerateAllFiles listing appear to be
off, e.g.:

Filename   Size    Date    Description
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
eicar.com
             68  08/13/28  Harmless EICAR anti-virus test file
eicar.com.txt
             68  08/13/28  Harmless EICAR anti-virus test file
                           (with double extension)
/../

An actual file has these stats:

  File: eicar.com.txt
  Size: 68              Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576 regular file
Device: 30h/48d Inode: 2468411     Links: 1
Access: (0660/-rw-rw----)  Uid: ( 1002/     bbs)   Gid: ( 1002/     bbs)
Access: 2023-03-10 20:27:24.347045200 +0100
Modify: 2021-08-07 08:40:24.517976500 +0200
Change: 2021-08-07 08:40:24.517976500 +0200
 Birth: 2021-08-06 22:02:09.559359100 +0200

...i.e. nowhere near 2028.

Files also display correctly in the file listing inside Mystic:

ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³ ± File Listing (00 tagged)                                          Uploads ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
 01 eicar.com                                                  FAILED 08/06/21
                             Harmless EICAR anti-virus test file
                             À Uploader: Zip
 02 eicar.com.txt                                              FAILED 08/06/21
                             Harmless EICAR anti-virus test file
                             (with double extension)
                             À Uploader: Zip

...as well as in the file list generated from the flist menu (A = (FF)
Download filelist with Data: /allgroups):

.---------.
| Uploads |
`---------'
.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------.
| File     Size    Date    Description |
`-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
eicar.com
 `-          68  08/06/21  Harmless EICAR anti-virus test file
eicar.com.txt
 `-          68  08/06/21  Harmless EICAR anti-virus test file
                           (with double extension)

(My weekly PackFileBases maintenance INI has check_files = true and
remove_missing = false, by the way, but I'm not sure whether that auto-updates any file stats.)

Do you have any idea what could be causing these strange dates only in the
GenerateAllFiles listing?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards
Bj”rn

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