[Bug-tar] Using atime-preserve feature

[Chun, Eric Y]

I can’t seem to preserve the atime of files when archiving and extracting.  Can somebody show me what I’m doing wrong?  Here are the steps I’m using:

 

$ tar –version

tar (GNU tar) 1.20

$ uname –a

Linux blahHostName 2.6.5-7.283-smp #1 SMP Wed Nov 29 16:55:53 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ pwd

blahDir/

$ touch -t 02010000 blah

$ ls –lu blah

-rw-rw-r--  1 <user> <group> 0 2008-02-01 00:00 blah

$ tar -jcf blah.tz2 blah --atime-preserve

$ cd ..

$ tar -jxf blahDir/blah.tz2

$ ls –lu blah

-rw-rw-r--  1 <user> <group> 0 2008-11-08 10:32 blah