is it a bug or a feature? re:time zone differences, laptops, and
suggestion for a new option
tim.conway at philips.com
tim.conway at philips.com
Fri Apr 5 06:02:18 EST 2002
I just did a win2k install, and as I thought i'd remembered, it asked
whether the hardware clock was UTC or localtime (and recommends
localtime). Of course, I chose UTC, but most would probably follow
MegaSloth's recommendation. I don't know how to change it on an
already-installed system, though. Does anyone else?
Tim Conway
tim.conway at philips.com
303.682.4917
Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC
1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D
Longmont, CO 80501
Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, n9hmg on AIM
perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn,
19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970),
".\n" '
"There are some who call me.... Tim?"
Martin Pool <mbp at samba.org>
Sent by: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
04/05/2002 12:43 AM
To: Robert Scholten <r.scholten at physics.unimelb.edu.au>
cc: rsync users <rsync at samba.org>
(bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
Subject: Re: is it a bug or a feature? re:time zone differences, laptops, and
suggestion for a new option
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On 5 Apr 2002, Robert Scholten <r.scholten at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> >Dear Tim, Martin,
>
> Thanks for helping with this. I tried setting TZ=UTC at both ends, and
> discovered that for some reason the files had a 1-hour timestamp
> difference. Not sure how that happened,
Melbourne just went off daylight savings. I reckon there's a
connection there. :-)
Microsoft like storing the local time in the hardware clock, which is
not the smartest design in the world. They have to kludge it when the
timezone's offset changes; this is particularly problematic on
laptops, and also if you dual-boot the machine either between unix and
xp, or different M$ installations.
> BTW, I have recently found another problem with using rsync on
> Windows/cygwin platforms. I had an exclude/include file list in dos
> format (cr/lf pairs instead of newlines). Oh boy did that create
> some fun. include/exclude rules are funny enough without the weird
> behaviour of matching added CR's. In my rsync scripts I now run
> dos2ux on these lists before executing rsync.
A patch to fix that will go into 2.6.
> Thanks again for your help. I live and breathe by rsync now that I'm
> 20,000km from hom.
> Rob.
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Martin
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