On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:26:48 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Last sunday, in my time zone (Rome), clocks were got back by one hour. >> I noticed that my Debian Lenny had done so automatically, but files >> timestamps were also took back by one hour, which is not what we want. > > > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > >> How is that? Do you have a proof of the timestamp change? :-? > >> a random filesystem timestamp change is a very serious issue. > > > I do regular backups on an usb pendrive. The last backup was made > before Sunday and the timestamps were the same on the PC and on the > pendrive. Now, after the timezone switching, all files on the pendrive > are one hour late respect to the PC. So, either the former jumped one > hour ahead or the latter jumped on hour back. > > This behaviour had been foreseen on the present mailing last 13 August > list by Frank Otto in the thread `rsync re-syncs unmodified files': > > More importantly, if you live in an area which switches timezones > during the year (summer/winter time aka daylight savings time), > the timestamps on these files might suddenly jump by one hour > (either the Linux times or the FAT times, I can't remember) and > then rsync might want to sync them again. In this case, use > modify-window=3602.
Ah, okay... fat filesystem does store the local timezone of the computer, not UTC, IIRC, so it will keep the old time (GMT+0200). I wonder if it exists any "vfat" mount option for displaying UTC time instead local :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.02.18.54...@gmail.com