On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, AZ Pete wrote:

> Is there a way to set the modified date for a file to some point in the past?
> 
> This needs to be done on a production box, so I can't simply set the system 
> clock back, touch the file, and reset the clock again.

  man touch  is your friend

something like:

	touch -n -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] /path/to/target/file

will work.

-- Russ Herrold
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