Date on NFS File

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When I create a file on the NFS file system, it gives the date created as Nov 7 2008. But when I create a file on local file system(ex /tmp) it gives the exact time as Nov 7 09:41. what could be the reason?

[Stephen P. Schaefer · Accepted solution]

The NFS server has a date in the future (possibly as little as one second), and the file is given the date by the server. Dates in the future are displayed in the format you saw. Best practice is to use NTP to keep the server and client dates matched.

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Steve,

We do have NTP server, but NFS server has the internal time server(10.2 subnet) and the server I have problem is on DMZ, which uses the time.nist.gov as an NTP server. So do you think this is the problem? Can I use the same NTP server for both the inside and outside the firewall servers? Your help is greatly appreciated....

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Nothing to do with NFS issue....