On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:38:43 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I think this may cause serious errors: in fact, when someone read the >> timestamp on the 2nd PC, he would believe that the file were created at >> 14:43 of the GMT time, which is wrong: in fact, it was created at 15:43 >> GMT = 14:43 UTC. > > > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > >> (...) >> >> Mmm, nope :-) >> >> I think you didn't get the whole picture. >> >> Look, it is very well explained in this Gentoo FAQ: >> >> *** >> Consistent times on FAT filesystems over the whole year >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579915-start-0.html *** > > > But the above `experiment' has nothing to do with vfat partitions: both > systems are linux ext3.
Ext3 does not expose that "time-moving" behaviour, just FAT. > What I don't understand is how can a user from > the 2nd system know that the file has been created at 14:43 UTC and not > at 14:43 of its local time, since all files of his filesystem are > displayed in the local time. To avoid confusion, run "date" command on both computers, then create a new file in computer 1 ("touch test_file") and then copy/paste the file into computer 2. After that, put here the output of "stat test_file" (runned from both systems) so we can get the full story >:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.04.18.16...@gmail.com