Re: Daylight Saving Time changes file times.

From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:22:48 +1000

What country do you come from? Australian farmers HATE daylight saving (something about cows go off their milk). 

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"Dave" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:eYZBl51GEHA.1368@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> 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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