On Thursday 04 November 2010 15:23:13 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Chris Jackson c.jack...@shadowcat.co.uk writes:
File timestamps are (or at least should be) stored in UTC. It's the
display of them that's affected.
But I did the following experiment: on a computer with system time set to
UTC, I
On Thursday 04 November 2010 16:17:29 Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/04/2010 10:23 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Chris Jacksonc.jack...@shadowcat.co.uk writes:
File timestamps are (or at least should be) stored in UTC. It's the
display of them that's affected.
But I did the following experiment:
On Thursday 02 December 2010 09:39:46 Lisi wrote:
I have an idea that there may be some distinction at the atomic level
between UTC and GMT. Can anyone enlighten me?
Thanks, Chris - you foresaw my question and answered it before I asked it. ;-)
Lisi
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Lisi:
I have an idea that there may be some distinction at the atomic level
between UTC and GMT. Can anyone enlighten me? Or was the decision to
call it UTC in place of GMT purely political?
Ah, time for my favourite quote from the Java6 API documentation:
| Some computer standards are
Chris Jackson c.jack...@shadowcat.co.uk writes:
File timestamps are (or at least should be) stored in UTC. It's the
display of them that's affected.
But I did the following experiment: on a computer with system time set to UTC,
I created a file at 14:43 UTC. Then I copied it via rsync and
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:23:13 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Chris Jackson writes:
File timestamps are (or at least should be) stored in UTC. It's the
display of them that's affected.
But I did the following experiment: on a computer with system time set
to UTC, I created a file at
On 11/04/2010 10:23 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Chris Jacksonc.jack...@shadowcat.co.uk writes:
File timestamps are (or at least should be) stored in UTC. It's the
display of them that's affected.
But I did the following experiment: on a computer with system time set to UTC,
I created a file
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:23:13 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
[...] I did the following experiment: on a computer with system time set
to UTC, I created a file at 14:43 UTC. Then I copied it via rsync and
ethernet cross cable to another PC with system time set to GMT, one hour
late respect to
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Chris Jackson c.jack...@shadowcat.co.uk writes:
File timestamps are (or at least should be) stored in UTC. It's the
display of them that's affected.
But I did the following experiment: on a computer with system time set to UTC,
I created a file at 14:43 UTC.
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:38:43 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
I think this may cause serious errors: in fact, when someone read the
timestamp on the 2nd PC, he would believe that the file were created at
14:43 of the GMT time, which is wrong: in fact, it was created at 15:43
GMT = 14:43 UTC.
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote:
But I did the following experiment: on a computer with system time
set to UTC, I created a file at 14:43 UTC. Then I copied it via rsync
and ethernet cross cable to another PC with system time set to GMT,
one hour late respect to UTC.
GMT is not
Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk writes:
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote:
But I did the following experiment: on a computer with system time
set to UTC, I created a file at 14:43 UTC. Then I copied it via rsync
and ethernet cross cable to another PC with system time set to
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