[OpenAFS] bogus file dates

[David Bear]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:58:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Gregg Tracton <tracton@med.unc.edu> writes:
> 
> > We see files written into our afs space with bogus date timestamps,
> > originating from windows, linux, and solaris clients. The timestamps
> > display, depending on the client viewing the timestamp, as either
> > December 31, 1969 or a day in 2033. It does not matter which of our 2
> > afs file servers contains the volume. The problem is rare (once daily)
> > and not reproducible.
> 
> This was a bug in the AFS clients for at least Windows and I believe
> Solaris some time back.  I remember we had this problem; I just don't
> remember the exact versions that we had it with.  Upgrading to the current
> versions of the AFS client should, in our experience, solve this problem.

I recall seeing this will windows clients I think even using transarc
afs... and probably open afs 1.2x. It was too long ago to remember,
and rather rarely noticed.

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