Re: updating the RTC automagically

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:38:54 +0100


On Nov 23, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> This is about right, but it would need a real-time process to change at
> the right moment. I'm surprised we don't support operations like these:
>
> a. At XXXXXXXX (a plain UNIX time) change the /foo/bar (an SMB
> filesystem) time offset to YYYYYYYY (signed seconds from UTC).

there is no such thing like a time offset (timezone) for a whole [SMB] filesystem.
if your time stamps are not UTC but localtime, then _every_ single file
lives in it's own `timezone' and needs it's own offset!
think about files being created on the same fs with and w/o DST...

Harald

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