On 7/30/06, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yes. unix and plan 9 both use seconds since epoch to
represent the date and both use an epoch defined in the
GMT timezone.
there shouldn't be any conversion required as the timezone+dst
offset needs to be added only for display.
- erik
On Sun Jul 30 14:51:52 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >It would then be the responsibility of the client to adjust for
> >his/her local time zone.
>
> isn't the value of ctime and mtime always in gmt, even on linux?
> on unix it was only the programs calling ctime (or relatives)
> that finally adjusted for local time, typically before displaying it.
> i don't see how the client kernel would or should get involved.
okay - I'll bite -- so what's csant's problem then?
-eric
