Re: daylight savings time / quark express

Well, I've looked into it a bit more.

It appears that the MAC OS is getting the UTC time and displaying it in
their file browser.

On any windows machine, Windows 98/2000/xp/2003 are adjusting the file date
/ time to reflect for time zone and daylight savings time.

So for example, there's this one file that shows being modified @ 11:42 on
the MACs and it's now showing 12:42 on all windows platforms.

So the MAC OS is seeming to show UTC time where the windows clients are
adjusting the time. WIth quark 5, it appears to be using basic Windows API
function calls to get the date time from the O/S. Since that time is
different from what the file has stored (UTC), it's saying that the file has
changed.



"Bob" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OJm2cVwNFHA.1392@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> it was brought to my attention that there is an issue between quark and
> files stored in Windows 2000 file shares revolving around time stamping of
> the files.
>
> this link
>
> http://www.quark.com/service/desktop/support/techinfo/technotes.jsp?idx=96
>
> shows that quark recommends shutting of automatic daylight savings time.
>
> i've googled the issue, and it seems like it's a well known problem
> without a solution.
>
> i manage an IT Data Center with a marketing group that has gigabytes of
> quark files. every spring/fall, this issue causes them much pain in that
> they have to be irritated by quark telling them that the file has been
> modified.
>
> is there any known issues or ways of solving this?
>
>


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