How to set older file dates? correction

[JD Austin]

Dates are set from epoch time.. 0 is Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT
You can play with it using the date command:
date -d @0 +"%d-%m-%Y %T %z"

-- JD Austin
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On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> doesn't that have to do with the millineum bug?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 12:19 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Correction ... I found that I was able to set dates
>> as far back as 1969, but not earlier.
>>
>>
>> > How can I set the date on some old files from
>> > the 60's, 70's, and 80's?
>> > When I use touch -t 6709131010 filename
>> > for the date September 13, 1967, the date
>> > shows up as September 13, 2067.
>>
>>
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