Re: File timestamps and timezones
From: Nick Payne (nickDOTpayne_at_internodeDOTonDOTnet)
Date: 03/01/05
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:02:35 +1100
Typo in original message, Canberra timezone is GMT+10 with daylight saving
ON...
Nick Payne
"Nick Payne" <someone@afp.gov.au> wrote in message
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> Last week I was in Perth (timezone GMT+8, no daylight saving). I created
> some files on a WinXP Pro workstation there which I copied across our
> network to my normal WinXP Pro workstation in Canberra (timezone GMT+8,
> daylight saving presently no, so effectively GMT+11), and I also copied
> the files to a USB memory key formatted with the FAT32 file system.
>
> This week I'm back in Canberra and plug the memory key into my
> workstation. When I compare the timestamps of the files on the memory key
> with the same files that were copied across the network, the files that
> were copied across the network show up as being three hours more recent.
> Why is this so? Must be something to do with the three hour time
> difference between the two workstations, but my understanding is that the
> NTFS file system stores file times internally in GMT. How does it store
> them on FAT32?
>
> Nick Payne
>
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