Re: An experiment about file timestamp (was: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone)

2010-12-02 Thread Lisi
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

Re: An experiment about file timestamp (was: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone)

2010-12-02 Thread Lisi
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: An experiment about file timestamp (was: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone)

2010-12-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
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

Re: An experiment about file timestamp (was: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone)

2010-11-04 Thread Rodolfo Medina
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

Re: An experiment about file timestamp (was: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone)

2010-11-04 Thread Camaleón
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

Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone

2010-11-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hallo. 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. Would it be possible to avoid that in future, and how? In internet I only

Re: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Jackson
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hallo. 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. File timestamps are (or at least should be)

Re: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone

2010-11-02 Thread Mario Kleinsasser
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Chris Jackson c.jack...@shadowcat.co.ukwrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hallo. 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

Re: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone

2010-11-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:10:23 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Last sunday, in my time zone (Rome), clocks were got back by one hour. Also here (Spain). 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. How

Re: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone

2010-11-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
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

Re: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Davies
Mario Kleinsasser mario.kleinsasser+deb...@gmail.com wrote: I'am in UTC+1 (currently normal time in Europe) Normal time for most of Western Europe, certainly. But not for Portugal, the Irish Republic, or the UK. Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone

2010-11-02 Thread Camaleón
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.

Re: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone

2010-11-02 Thread John Hasler
File timestamps are stored in UTC and converted to your local zone for display. Thus they should jump when you change your timezone. They should not change when the change to or from Daylight Savings Time (Summer Time) occurs as that is not a change of zone but rather part of the definition of a