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From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: cc and ar have a funny idea about time...
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Date: 25 Sep 90 19:23:33 GMT
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In-Reply-To: luciano@canuck.Berkeley.EDU's message of 25 Sep 90 17:23:50 GMT

In article <28164@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> luciano@canuck.Berkeley.EDU (Luciano Lavagno) writes:

   I am sorry. Apparently the problem was due to the fact that the files
   were residing on a different machine (through NFS) and that machine had
   the time set wrong. The different behavior of cc and touch is still
   peculiar, though...

If you are at Ultrix 4.0 you should read the man pages for "ntpd".
It'll keep your clocks quite well in tune.

--Ed