Re: touch bug

[Jim Meyering]

Diego de Lima <address@hidden> wrote:
> The touch command sets timestamps terminated in 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9 incorrectly!
>
> # touch -t "200404231712.27" /mnt/autobk/portal/public.tgz
> # ls --time-style=full-iso -l /mnt/autobk/portal/public.tgz
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       778240 2004-04-23 17:12:26.000000000 -
> 0400 /mnt/autobk/portal/public.tgz

You don't say what version you're using,
nor the type of O/S and file system.
The fact that your report went to bug-fileutils suggests
you're not using the latest.

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)

I can't reproduce that using the latest version of GNU touch,
from coreutils-5.2.1.

If you can reproduce it with the latest,
would you please provide more details?