System date 7 years ahead

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Tue Mar 9 13:40:40 PST 2004


Hi,

I just built and configured a 4.9 box for a friend and I noticed that
the system date was 2011.  Timezone, month, day, and time were correct
during install/config but I never noticed the year was in the future
until ntpd refused to adjust the clock.

Will this be a problem when the filesystem has virtually every file and
directory stamped 7 years from now?  The box will be kept up with -STABLE
and I'm sure ports will be installed/deinstalled.

The nit-picker in me wants me touch the entire filesystem with the
current date but I'm not sure that's a good idea.

Advice?

-- 
Regards,
Doug




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