cvs says a file is locally modified but this is not true

[cristian zoicas]

Hello all,

After I have replaced the operating system from Ubuntu (don't know
version number) to Debian 5.0.3 a set of files in my local directory
is reported as modified by

cvs -n -q update

but nobody modified them.

When I perform "cvs diff" on the files I get something like:

< * @version $Id: HtmlEmail.java,v 1.1.1.1 2003-03-21 10:56:19 aardolf
Exp $
---
Exp $

The only difference between the file in the repository and the local
file is the date separator, the file in the repository using the "-"
separator and the local file using "/".

Can somebody suggest a possible solution?

I tried the following but it didn't work:

When I performed the checkout the file has arrived somehow on my
machine with the "/" date separator. But now the file in the
repository arrives on my machine with a "-" separator. It seems to be
a locale generated problem. I've tried changing the locale with one
using the "/" separator but it didn't work.

regards
z