On 5 Apr 2002, Robert Scholten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Dear Tim, Martin, > > Thanks for helping with this. I tried setting TZ=UTC at both ends, and > discovered that for some reason the files had a 1-hour timestamp > difference. Not sure how that happened,
Melbourne just went off daylight savings. I reckon there's a connection there. :-) Microsoft like storing the local time in the hardware clock, which is not the smartest design in the world. They have to kludge it when the timezone's offset changes; this is particularly problematic on laptops, and also if you dual-boot the machine either between unix and xp, or different M$ installations. > BTW, I have recently found another problem with using rsync on > Windows/cygwin platforms. I had an exclude/include file list in dos > format (cr/lf pairs instead of newlines). Oh boy did that create > some fun. include/exclude rules are funny enough without the weird > behaviour of matching added CR's. In my rsync scripts I now run > dos2ux on these lists before executing rsync. A patch to fix that will go into 2.6. > Thanks again for your help. I live and breathe by rsync now that I'm > 20,000km from hom. > Rob. -- Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
