[jcifs] Quick dumb timezone question

Allen, Michael B (RSCH) Michael_B_Allen at ml.com
Thu Sep 5 15:18:50 EST 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Christopher R. Hertel [SMTP:crh at ubiqx.mn.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:40 AM
> To:	jcifs at samba.org
> Subject:	[jcifs] Quick dumb timezone question
> 
> I'm confused about the ServerTimeZone field in the NegProt response.  I 
> would have thought that it would have been a signed value, with positive 
> values for east of Greenwich and negative values for west.  The docs say 
> it's signed, however.
> 
	Right. It's signed.

> How is this field used?
> 
	Well I have an app that searches a bunch of drives around the globe in
	parallel for files. Here are some data points. You figure it out.

	San Francisco      420
	New York           240
	Toronto            240
	London            -60
	Hong Kong         -480
	Singapore         -480
	Tokyo             -540
	Melbourne         -600

	But this is not a quick dumb question. It's complicated. Actually the SNIA
	doc has a bit more about how you take into account daylight savings time.
	Look at writeTime() in ServerMessageBlock.java. But some regions use daylight
	savings and some don't. If the server is in a different hemisphere and you're in
	daylight savings, then wouldn't times need to be adjusted whereas with a server
	in the same hemisphere you would not adjust? Currently I calculate daylight
	savings correction for *the time being encoded* based on *my* timezone.
	Doesn't the *servers* timezone need to be considered? Last I checked times
	in different TZs work just fine but it would be great if you could answer these
	questions definitively. I'm not crytal clear on it.




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