Flame: Problem with zoo: restoring times

Jacob Gore gore at eecs.nwu.edu
Sat Feb 18 07:23:43 AEST 1989


/ comp.sources.bugs / dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) / Feb 16, 1989 /
> >File times [should be] stored internally relative to GMT.  When stored
> >this way, they should be retrieved this way. No need to change it.
> 
> The main problem with doing this is that not all operating systems
> maintain information about where they are relative to GMT.  Most users
> don't even *know* how far they are from GMT.

For those systems, is there any harm in pretending that they *are* on GMT?

Jacob



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