What is happening is that Windows is translating the date/time to be relative to the current time zone - now Daylight Savings vs Standard time. To better illustrate this, change the time zone on a Windows computer then look at date/time stamps on files. The stamp hasn't been changed at all, just how Windows is translating it for you.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:Jochen.Willeke@wincor-nixdorf.com] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:49 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Files on CIFS share have timestamp off by one hour after daylight saving
Hi everybody,
i have a case of one user who stored some files from his Windows2000 client onto a CIFS share on a fas3050 with Ontap 6.5.4. When he first copied the files onto the share the creation time was 10:00 o'clock. This was the Friday before we had the daylight saving change. On next monday the creation time was not 10:00 but 11:00.
I have no clue how this could happen. Anybody got an idea? I would be glad even if i get some information about how timestamps are created so i can make a research myself.
Thanks a lot for any suggestions in advance
Jochen
This is because Windows doesn't properly process Timezone information. Time zone information is time relative, files created at 0203 on March 20th, have not been then created at 0303 after the change to DST, however much Microsoft would like to believe that this is the case. Perhaps we should all just use UTC as our timezone. <scw>
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:03:29AM -0400, Holland, William L wrote:
What is happening is that Windows is translating the date/time to be relative to the current time zone - now Daylight Savings vs Standard time. To better illustrate this, change the time zone on a Windows computer then look at date/time stamps on files. The stamp hasn't been changed at all, just how Windows is translating it for you.
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