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Article #2070Re: File times (was: Zoo and Timezones)
From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1989 20:06
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1989 20:06
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In article <2888@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
SInce most systems do not know about timezones (e.g. MSDOS, VMS),
it were better for a real good exchangeable archiving program like
zoo to ignore timezones, store local times only, and document that
it is done this way.
My feeling exactly, which is why the default action, in the absence of
the symbol GETTZ being defined, is to do the above. I quote from the
zoo manual:
The file time listed is, however, always the original
timestamp of the archived file, as observed by the user who
archived the file, expressed as that user's local time.
(Timezone information is stored and displayed only if the
underlying operating system knows about timezones.)
I'll keep the other major suggestion (maintain timezone as a signed
number) in mind.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: File times (was: Zoo and Timezones) Message-ID: <5768@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 18 Feb 89 20:06:10 GMT References: <13152@steinmetz.ge.com> <2888@mhres.mh.nl> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 21