[Samba] Wintertime/summertime difference - Samba servers show wrong time ?

Thomas Bork tombork at web.de
Sat Nov 5 01:32:27 GMT 2005


Dragan Krnic wrote:

>>From what I gathered in the documentations on both sides of the
> fence, Unix traditionally stamps file times (create/status change, 
> modify and last read access) with a long integer (32 bits) counting 
> full seconds since midnight A.M. January 1, 1970 in Greenwhich, EU, 
> whereas the NT File System apparently uses a larger data type to 
> count decimicroseconds (or should I say hectonanoseconds) since 
> the same time of night in the said British village on January 1, 
> 1601, when it wants to stamp one of its own set of file times, 
> creation, content alteration, MFT change or last read access.

I think the difference in timestamping is also the cause for the 
annoying bug

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3124


der tom


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