On 17/04/2014 13:29, random832@fastmail.us wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014, at 6:47, Marc Lehmann wrote:
Imagine you created a file on such a system in 1989, using those rules. Then the local time you created it in is the ruthenia one - the kiev rules would likely give you the wrong time.
And yet we don't care to store what timezone the file was created in, whereas the system might have been somewhere else in 1989 and moved to Ruthenia now.
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). -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-