We are having problems with 'date' on our CX/UX version 7.1
Basically files created by 'cp' are 1 year old, whereas 'touch' creates
the file with the correct date.

Notice below that a has todays date, but b and sh.log are 1 year old!

Any ideas

#! /bin/ksh
rm a b
date > sh.log
touch a
cp a b
ls -l >> sh.log
date >> sh.log

more sh.log

Tue Jan 23 02:10:36 GMT 2007
total 4
-rw-rw-r--  1 flt      d61flt          0 Jan 23 02:10 a
-rwxrwxrwx  1 flt      d61flt         72 Jan 23  2006 a.sh
-rw-rw-r--  1 flt      d61flt          0 Jan 23  2006 b
-rw-rw-r--  1 flt      d61flt         29 Jan 23  2006 sh.log
Tue Jan 23 02:10:36 GMT 2007

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In article <1169519225.380744.274580@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
mark_doherty@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> We are having problems with 'date' on our CX/UX version 7.1
> Basically files created by 'cp' are 1 year old, whereas 'touch' creates
> the file with the correct date.
>
> Notice below that a has todays date, but b and sh.log are 1 year old!

Are you using a fileserver?  It looks to me like the date on the server
is wrong.  When you use "touch", it forcibly sets the modification time
to the current time on the client.  When you write to a file, the server
sets the modification time using its clock.

>
> Any ideas
>
> #! /bin/ksh
> rm a b
> date > sh.log
> touch a
> cp a b
> ls -l >> sh.log
> date >> sh.log
>
> more sh.log
>
> Tue Jan 23 02:10:36 GMT 2007
> total 4
> -rw-rw-r--  1 flt      d61flt          0 Jan 23 02:10 a
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 flt      d61flt         72 Jan 23  2006 a.sh
> -rw-rw-r--  1 flt      d61flt          0 Jan 23  2006 b
> -rw-rw-r--  1 flt      d61flt         29 Jan 23  2006 sh.log
> Tue Jan 23 02:10:36 GMT 2007

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