(bsd)tar is broken on 6.1

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hello!

> > I have narrowed the problem to a specific subdirectory and I think I
> > have the explanation:
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--  1 jmz  jmz    4312 Apr 16  1947 supclkrd.prg
> > 
> > Don't ask me why the date is wrong, this is really old stuff :-)

Since there cannot be a date before January 1st 1970, 0:00 on
any Unix system, i guess there's something seriously broken here.

Signed/unsigned overflow for the time_t value in question?

Regards,
Patrick M. Hausen
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