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

[David Bolen]

Martin Pool [mbp at samba.org] writes:

> 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.  (...)

It depends on the filesystem under Windows.  NTFS uses UTC for
timestamps, but the FAT* variants use local time.

-- David

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