Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-28 Thread Mark Modrall
cussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files I did some googling but had decided not to post since I'm not an expert. I found some doco in MSDN describing a structure with Date and Time fields and a note saying t

Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
From: "Rob Mensching" Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:19 AM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files I believe this is a limitation of .cab files that store

Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-28 Thread Rob Mensching
I believe this is a limitation of .cab files that store the times as FILETIME. Timezone is not stored. I'd be happy to be wrong if someone could show otherwise. On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Grigory Konovalov < grigory.konova...@confirmit.com> wrote: > Why WIX save local time for files, but do

Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-28 Thread Grigory Konovalov
Why WIX save local time for files, but doesn't save UTC time? For example, a file has 10.00 time modified in a server with UTC+01.00 (it is 9.00 in UTC time). I create msi on this server and install it on a new server with UTC-01.00. The file have 10.00 time modified on the new server after instal

Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-27 Thread Rob Mensching
lto:chr...@iswix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:45 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; > wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed > files > > WiX / MSI doesn't have a

Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-27 Thread Wilson, Phil
Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:45 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files WiX / MSI doesn

Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
rnally but show Local to the user. From: "Grigory Konovalov" Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:23 AM To: "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files Hi all, I hav

[WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-27 Thread Grigory Konovalov
Hi all, I have noticed a strange behavior during installation. For example, we have a build server with UTC+01.00. I have a production server with UTC-06.00. I run a build on the build server and create an installation. I install the installation on the production server and can see, that "modify