Re: [SLUG] tar extract -> out of time_t

[Ken Yap <ken@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Does anyone know what this error message from a tar archive
>means? There is nothing in the man pages for tar on this.
>
>tar xvf rsnsw.tar
>	studentships.html
>	style_guide.html
>	tar: Archive value 2872975643983 is out of time_t range
>-2147483648..2147483647
>	talks_2000/
>	talks_2000/talk_Blank.html
>	...etc...
>	tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>It occurs for both t and x tar options. Is it complaining
>about some problem with a time stamp perhaps?
>The archive itself seems to have extracted OK.

My guess is that the tar format has been extended to 64-bit timestamps
but the upper 32 bits of timestamps in the archive (possibly created by
an older tar?) contain garbage which trigger this warning.