[2.4.20] problem with updating time fields?

[Folkert van Heusden]

Hi,

I thing I might be onto something:
when I do an ls -l in some directory, I get:
root@muur:/usr/local/etc# ls -l /data2/backup/
total 446036
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       209975 Dec  2 01:12 backup.log.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     269022417 Dec  2 01:12 data.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         6651 Dec  2 01:12 data2.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     39717149 Dec  2 00:15 root.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     147302102 Dec  2 00:44 usr.tar.bz2
If I connect with ftp to that machine and do
the ls in the same dir, I get:
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       209975 Dec  2 00:12 backup.log.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     269022417 Dec  2 00:12 data.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         6651 Dec  2 00:12 data2.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     39717149 Dec  1 23:15 root.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     147302102 Dec  1 23:44 usr.tar.bz2
Dec 1! that's different from what the ls gives me!

I mount /data2 as ext3 (fstab: /dev/hda6       /data2  ext3    defaults
0 0),
nothing fancy.

Bug? Or am I ignorant?

Folkert van Heusden
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