is it a bug or a feature? re:time zone differences, laptops, and suggestion for a new option

[Martin Pool]

On  4 Apr 2002, Robert Scholten <r.scholten at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> 
> I am using rsync to back up some files from a WinXP laptop to a Linux 
> server.

Linux stores file times in UTC, and rsync transfers them in UTC.  I
thought that NT and XP did too, but perhaps not, or perhaps there is a
problem with Cygwin.  Changing timezone ought not to have any effect
on rsync.

What does 

  TZ=UTC ls -l 

show on the two boxes before and after changing timezone?

-- 
Martin