Re: Spurious changes on Windows 7 (Win 7 Win7)

> If I copy the file away somewhere and do a SVN update,
> I get a clean file

What happens if you do a binary comparison (or MD5 checksum or
whatever) on the old and new files?

Are their contents identical?

> but now with today's date which is less than ideal.

Subversion (and most revision control systems) will bump the local
files' times to the current time whenever they are modified (even if
the modification is to revert back to an ancient version of the
files).

This is done on purpose to ensure programs pick up the files as "new"
(otherwise some tools would ignore the fact you had changed a file
because they think it is old).

Excel files store their own modification (etc.) timestamps within the
files themselves (separate and independent of the normal fileystsem
metadata/timestamps) so you can use those to know when files were
modified from that point of view.

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