bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball

[Dave Love]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Interestingly, I do not get this message, both with ‘tar xf’ and
> ‘tar xvf’ with GNU tar 1.28.
>
> I tried with different timezones, and I can’t trigger it.
>
> Dave: What version of GNU tar do you use, and in what timezone?
>
> TIA,
> Ludo’.

It was on RHEL6 in the UK zone

  $ grep -I zone /etc/sysconfig/clock
  ZONE="Europe/London"
  
with:

  $ rpm -q tar
  tar-1.23-11.el6.x86_64

There aren't any obviously-relevant patches in the tar package changelog.

I think it would be worth a note on the timestamps anyway to avoid
confusion and make sure they're maintained, if they should be.  (Excuse
me if that's done somewhere, but I just went to the current installation
instructions.)