April 17, 2014
5:04 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014, at 9:20, Ian Abbott wrote:
Unix systems store the timestamp in universal time, so the local timezone the system was in at the time the file was created/modified/accessed shouldn't matter (assuming the system time was set correctly).
This entire conversation is predicated on the assumption that we want to display it in local time. If there is a correct answer, then the timezone the file was created in is a better candidate than the timezone your current geographic location (where the file may not have been created) observed. Rejecting the assumption makes the _entire_ exercise irrelevant, not only the part I brought up.