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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:33:26 +0100
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> was there a better way before wstat let you change mtime?

That was in reference to unix/history.  It was before the
days of utime(2) and it was the only way to do it and then
it just persisted, in about N different bad forms.

One version wouldn't create the file if it didn't exist IIRC.

And then all the different date formats for the time(s).