Re: Invalid dates in git log

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 12, 2007, 14:59 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712121457280.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vejds8ddf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>     Author:     Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
>     AuthorDate: Fri Apr 5 00:07:45 2019 -0500
>     Commit:     Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
>     CommitDate: Tue Jul 12 00:12:09 2005 -0400
> 
>     author Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> 1554440865 -0500
>     committer Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> 1121141529 -0400
> 
> [...] It looks like quite a random timestamp, and committer timestamp 
> look reasonable, relative to the other commits around it.

It is quite possible that Len Brown had a similar problem to what I experienced yesterday: my clock was set one hour and 22 years into the future, but I have no idea how that happened. My only guess is a half-succeeded ntpdate call, but somehow I doubt that.

Ciao, Dscho