wrong date while creating files

Hi Experts,
when I execute "date" command , it gives me the right date.
But If I create a file and do "ls -lart" it appears that it has been created 6 Feb 2009 !!???
Anyone has any clue

Hi and welcome

could you please execute these commands and paste the result?

Code:

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date
touch foo
ls -la foo

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Hi Irithori,
=== root@eqm01s0fp2 ANCB ~ # date
Thu Jan 3 14:06:32 CET 2013
=== root@eqm01s0fp2 ANCB ~ # touch test
=== root@eqm01s0fp2 ANCB ~ # ls -lart test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 2009 test
=== root@eqm01s0fp2 ANCB ~ #

hmm, it is root´s $HOME, so the chance, that it might be a non-posix filesystem is slim.
Anyway, please post the output of these in CODE tags:

Code:

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mount
dmesg

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Are you maybe using a networked filesystem like nfs, ocfs, etc?

Is it possible that atime and/or diratime was disabled? I always disable it to speed up my hard drive.
cat /etc/fstab