On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:04:28 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >Sauce for the goose. In the recent "DCBE" thread, several >contributors (particularly IBM employees) lauded z/OS for >steadfastly maintaining compatibility with previous incorrect >behavior. Apply the same standard when judging Windows and >z/OS. > On the matter of misguided compatibility, the relevant analogy is that it's best to peel the adhesive tape briskly; it hurts worse if you hesitate.
>The Twinsun page avers that Cygwin uses the zoneinfo data base; >I only hope correctly; I haven't tried it. > Got to Cygwin. Looked at timestamps for a file from last February, mounted via Samba from a Solaris server. Cygwin shows the timestamp correct; 7 hour offset from UTC. Windows Exploder shows it an hour off. Does Samba reflect the timestamp in UTC and Windows corrupts it? There's a parallel disagreement for a native Windows file. But I have no audit trail to determine which is correct. Hmmm. I created one with touch(1) from Cygwin. Windows shows timestamp an hour off. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
