On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Tom T. Thai wrote:
> look at the date of the dir and files... I see 1997 when I use NetScape on
> Win98 to get there.  But when I ftp via NetBSD, the year doesn't show when
> I do ls -l so I assume it's current.  Here is the output.

> -rw-r--r--  1 1162  netbsd  84626 Nov  7 21:44 INSTALL
[ ... ]

Maybe NetBSD's ftp is just showing what the ftp server sends, but
Netscape and Win98 try to figure out the year from that info. At least
in the US, Nov 7 21:44 1998 is in the future, so Netscape figures that
the year must be 1997. That's my guess, at least :)
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