# Elastic elasticsearch-9.1.5-linux-x86\_64.tar.gz installation file issue

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-elasticsearch-9-1-5-linux-x86-64-tar-gz-installation-file-issue/382775
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 16, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-elasticsearch-9-1-5-linux-x86-64-tar-gz-installation-file-issue/382775 "2025-10-16T11:44:31Z")
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### Author: ![bodige.mahesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@bodige.mahesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bodige.mahesh)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-elasticsearch-9-1-5-linux-x86-64-tar-gz-installation-file-issue/382775/1 "2025-10-16T11:44:31Z")

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HI Team,

We are trying to install Elasticsearch 9.1.5 version on oel7 and jdk”21.0.7",

while extracting the file, it is giving old date, could you please check and suggest if anything can be checked from ourend.

tar: elasticsearch-9.1.5/jdk/legal: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 19:00:00  
tar: elasticsearch-9.1.5/jdk: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 19:00:00  
tar: elasticsearch-9.1.5: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 19:00:00

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### Author: ![RainTown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/raintown/32/140206_2.png) [@RainTown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RainTown)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-elasticsearch-9-1-5-linux-x86-64-tar-gz-installation-file-issue/382775/2 "2025-10-16T13:29:33Z")

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Interesting catch, and welcome to the community.

> [@bodige.mahesh](#):
>
> tar: elasticsearch-9.1.5/jdk/legal: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 19:00:00  
> tar: elasticsearch-9.1.5/jdk: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 19:00:00  
> tar: elasticsearch-9.1.5: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 19:00:00

The 1969-12-31 vs 1970-01-01 thing is just a few hours diff due to different timezone, but this seems to have been the case for a while now, 9.0.6 and 9.1.3 resp in 9.x series.

```auto
% ls
elasticsearch-8.19.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.0.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.0.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.0.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.0.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.0.5-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.0.6-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.0.7-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.0.8-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.1.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.1.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.1.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elasticsearch-9.1.5-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

% for file in elasticsearch-*gz ; do echo "$file" $(TZ=UTC tar ztvf $file | awk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1n) ; done
elasticsearch-8.19.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 17 2025-07-22 1525 2025-07-23
elasticsearch-9.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 30 2025-04-07 1515 2025-04-08
elasticsearch-9.0.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 30 2025-04-29 1515 2025-04-30
elasticsearch-9.0.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 30 2025-05-27 1515 2025-05-28
elasticsearch-9.0.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 30 2025-06-17 1515 2025-06-18
elasticsearch-9.0.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 30 2025-07-15 1515 2025-07-16
elasticsearch-9.0.5-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 30 2025-07-24 1515 2025-08-06
elasticsearch-9.0.6-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 1540 1970-01-01
elasticsearch-9.0.7-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 1540 1970-01-01
elasticsearch-9.0.8-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 1542 1970-01-01
elasticsearch-9.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 30 2025-07-22 1517 2025-07-23
elasticsearch-9.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 30 2025-07-24 1517 2025-08-05
elasticsearch-9.1.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 30 2025-07-24 1517 2025-08-11
elasticsearch-9.1.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 1542 1970-01-01
elasticsearch-9.1.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 1543 1970-01-01
elasticsearch-9.1.5-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 1545 1970-01-01

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### Author: ![Rios](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rios/32/95745_2.png) [@Rios](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rios)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-elasticsearch-9-1-5-linux-x86-64-tar-gz-installation-file-issue/382775/3 "2025-10-16T13:42:06Z")

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Similar is on Win platform and also since 9.1.3

 ![Elk9](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/a/ba7c60d06ae1f3a3ec997716610e33717b2f7ecf.jpeg)

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### Author: ![bodige.mahesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@bodige.mahesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bodige.mahesh)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-elasticsearch-9-1-5-linux-x86-64-tar-gz-installation-file-issue/382775/4 "2025-10-17T11:59:10Z")

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any other update please

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### Author: ![bodige.mahesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@bodige.mahesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bodige.mahesh)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-elasticsearch-9-1-5-linux-x86-64-tar-gz-installation-file-issue/382775/5 "2025-10-29T16:02:35Z")

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Hi Team,

PLease update on this topic

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### Author: ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-elasticsearch-9-1-5-linux-x86-64-tar-gz-installation-file-issue/382775/6 "2025-10-29T22:35:46Z")

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Oddly enough I don’t get this warning (Ubuntu 25.04) even though the timestamps might be considered “implausibly old”.

```auto
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.35
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

```

Anyway these are just warnings, you can either ignore them or suppress them with `--warning=no-timestamp` if they bother you.
