[SOLVED] File time stamp and time as printed by date showing difference
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I found the cause of it. The home directory is getting mounted from another Linux machine X and that machine X has wrong time (behind by 38 minutes)
So the file was getting timestamp from that machine X having wrong time while date command is showing time of current machine Y.
Thanks for your replies.
JeremyBoden,
I had an entry in /etc/fstab file on machine X something like below.
10.20.30.40:/NLMNT/home /home nfs defaults 0 0
So the time on this machine 10.20.30.40 was wrong.
Time on machine X is correct. But
$ touch abcd
is actually creating a file physically resident on machine 10.20.30.40 with that machine's timestamp
while date command shows current time on machine X and they differ.
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