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 ar
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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On Thursday 04 November 2010 16:17:29 Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 10:23 AM, 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 compute
On Thursday 04 November 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
Chris Davies writes:
> Rodolfo Medina 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.
>
>
Rodolfo Medina 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 (and never is) one ho
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 UT
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 14:43 UTC. Then I copied it
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 respec
On 11/04/2010 10:23 AM, 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 14:43 UTC. Then I cop
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 fi
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 14:43 UTC. Then I copied it via rsync and ethernet cross
cable to a
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