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

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

Re: Timestamps jump by one hour when switching timezone

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Davies
Mario Kleinsasser 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 with a subject of "unsubscribe".

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 writes: > How is that? Do you have a proof of

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. H

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 wrote: > 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

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) s