On 06-Nov-00 Vidiot wrote:
>>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.
is /etc/localtime correct ?
-Greg
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Date: 06-Nov-00
Time: 16:13:26
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