From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-12-26T02:41:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:27326] Re: [Bug #2530] Future timestamps in 1.8.7-p248 	generate recursive compilation process

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> wrote:
> 2009/12/26 Luis Lavena <redmine@ruby-lang.org>:
>
>> After the announcement of 1.8.7-p248, I've proceeded to download and install it.
>>
>> During extraction, got several warnings about future timestamps, and ignore them (see attached extract.error.log)
>>
>> My local clock is 12pm, 2009-12-25, UTC-3
>
> The first two line of extract.error.log is follows.
>
> | [2009-12-16 14:33:29] tar xzf
> /home/luis/.rvm/archives/ruby-1.8.7-p248.tar.gz -C /home/luis/.rvm/src
> | tar: ruby-1.8.7-p248/bin: time stamp 2009-12-24 06:37:32 is
> 662642.859822642 s in the future
>
> I guess your clock shows 2009-12-16.
>

For some weird reason, the clock of the machine has been stuck to that date!

I just restarted the system and is back to normal:

Fri Dec 25 14:39:39 ART 2009

> % ruby -e 'p Time.local(2009,12,24,6,37,32) - 662642.859822642'
> 2009-12-16 14:33:29 +0900
>
> I think Ruby 1.8.7 p248 is not released before 2009-12-16.

Thank you, seems I was trying to go back in time and install 1.8.7
ahead of its release.

Will check my other systems and reset the clocks.

Apologies for the noise.
-- 
Luis Lavena
AREA 17
-
Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry