Re: Daylight Saving Time changes file times.

From: Dave (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:36:03 -0000

or move into the 24/7 world wide always up and running connected world where
time doesn't jump ahead or back at arbitrarily determined times so that
farmers can get extra time to exploit child labor in the fields! set your
server to utc with no dst and cast off the shackles of our agrarian past!

"GwD" <GDavis@nospam.hme.com> wrote in message
news:uiWz2v1GEHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Maybe you should try a different method to check for updates.
>
>
> "Fred Hebert" <fhebert@delete-this-part-priority.net> wrote in message
> news:1888001c41b56$200c2220$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > For years I have had problems with all of the file times
> > on my Windows systems changing every time Daylight Saving
> > Time (DST) begins or ends. I have found no way to get my
> > system to display the correct time, and not change the
> > file times.
> >
> > I am a small time developer and use an automatic mechanism
> > for my customers to download updates across the web.
> > Basically the files are stored on a web server along with
> > a directory listing that contains file times, dates and
> > checksums. The client software periodically retrieve the
> > directory listing and use to compare to their local
> > files. If the file changes they download it, and verify
> > the download with the checksum.
> >
> > This weekend everyone downloaded everything and really
> > swamped my server, and I am probably going to pay a
> > bandwidth premium. This is a real pain because no files
> > changed. All of the Windows clients just thought the file
> > times changed.
> >
> > Apparently the file time is internally adjusted from the
> > UTC time based on the current time offset, not the time
> > offset that was in effect when the file was created.
> >
> > Incidentally NONE of my Netware, Unix or Linux clients had
> > this problem.
> >
> > If I turn off Automatically adjust for DST, then the file
> > times don't change, but the current time is always wrong.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to fix this?
> >
>
>

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