BUG: SourceSafe Reports a Date/Time of 1/1/70

SourceSafe reports a date/time of 1/1/70 on all files within a project.

This is caused by a corrupt Status.dat file.

You may repair the Status.dat file by doing one of the following:

• Download the latest versions of Analyze and DDCONV. For information on downloading these files, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  190881  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190881/EN-US/ ) ANALYZE5.EXE Utility for Visual SourceSafe
  Run DDCONV -S <path to data directory>.
• Delete the Status.dat file and run ANALYZE <path to data directory> -f.

NOTE: If you have SourceSafe version 4.0 (build 811 or 831), you should obtain version 4.0a (build 1309) from Microsoft Technical Support before repairing the Status.dat file.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.