[Opendnssec-user] serial number decreased in signed zone in 1.4.0a2

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Matthijs Mekking wrote:

> What serial arithmetic do you use (<SOA><Serial>)?

unixtime

> Valid reasons for the serial decreasing might be loss/corruption of
> back up file.

I surely deleted backup/tmp files in /var/opendnssec in the last half
year, so those files for colah.ca did get lost. But shouldn't unixtime
increase over time regardless? I am not sure why a zone signed on July
24 would end up with 2012011518 as serial number?

Paul