>I believe that is by design. One is supposed to use programs that are
>smart enough to adjust for localtime when looking at file datestamps.
>If they wrote the actual localtime to the bits on the hard drive, then
>when you copy those bits to another computer that is in a different
>timezone, it would not have the correct time. But if you copy a file
>to someone in another timezone, they use their program to adjust the
>gmt for the correct time.
OK, that is fine, i.e., setting the actual timestamp of the file to UTC/GMT.
Then one would expect ls to display the file's timestamp in localtime, which
it isn't.
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