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From: Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:12:48
Message-Id: 854dca5c1001251212u1f5b22feya6b501595455ec40@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times... by Mark Knecht
1 This is rather blunt but...
2
3 Find / -name "*"|xargs touch
4
5 On 1/25/10, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > Hi,
7 > I've just rebuilt my new machine this morning playing with
8 > different ways to do things. Unfortunately I went sort of fast and
9 > forgot to set date/time/timezone. (Doing too much from memory this
10 > time.) Now when I try to set the system time to local and the hardware
11 > clock to Pacific time and turn on ntp-client/ntpd I'm getting lots of
12 > complaints about modification times in the future.
13 >
14 > This is completely my mistake and I can start over and fix it in a
15 > couple of hours but I'm wondering if there's an easy way out of this?
16 >
17 > Thanks,
18 > Mark
19 >
20 >
21
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23 Sent from my mobile device
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26 Kyle

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Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times... Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times... Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>