That's why SmartCVS (www.smartcvs.com) treats files as identical that 
differ in one hour. IDEA can do it the same.

Best regards,
Thomas Singer

At 15:52 21.01.02 +0300, you wrote:
>There is a bug with the times that is described in CVS NT "readme" file:
>
>The citation:
>"NT has a bug whereby its idea of GMT as returned by stat() is off by one
>hour during DST.  This
>  causes all files views in WinCVS to become 'modified' whenever the DST
>threshold is crossed."
>
>We are aware of this problem and there always has been a patch in our code
>that addresses the issue: if the file's timestamp and the timestamp recorded
>in CVS/Entries files are off by _exactly_ one hour, the file is not
>considered modified. The patch is still there and it seems to work, because
>I cannot reproduce the problem: all the files are colored as they should. I
>suspect the problem has something to do with the timezones as someone
>mentioned, but this is still just a guess. Please try to invoke "update"
>command with "-C" additional option on the file that is wrongly colored:
>this will replace the local file with the latest version from the server
>_and_ should touch both timestamps. Is the file still colored in blue?
>
>Best regards,
>Eugene Zhuravlev
>IntelliJ Software, http://www.intellij.com/
>"Develop with pleasure!"
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "North D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: 21 January, 2002 2:46 PM
>Subject: RE: [Eap-list] All CVS Blue in 545
>
>
> > More likely to be that the CVS repository is on a shared/mounted drive on
>a
> > machine whose clock is slightly out from the local machine, and IDEA is
> > keeping a local timestamp file or something - this has bitten me in the
> > past.
> >
> > I'm sure the gurus at IntelliJ are on the case though...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dan
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rodrigo Gevaerd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: 21 January 2002 12:28
> > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Subject: RE: [Eap-list] All CVS Blue in 545
> > >
> > >
> > >   Just a shot in the dark as the reason seems to be
> > > unexplained: may it have
> > > something to do with timezone or daylight saving when
> > > comparing the modified
> > > dates of the files? Eastern South America standard time GMT -3 here.
> > >
> > >   []'s,
> > >   Rodrigo.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Eugene Zhuravlev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: s�bado, 19 de janeiro de 2002 10:56
> > > To: Eap-List
> > > Subject: Re: [Eap-list] All CVS Blue in 545
> > >
> > >
> > > Please provide us more details of how to reproduce the
> > > erroneuos behaviour.
> > > We checked build 545 and the file color is always updated
> > > according to the
> > > CVS state.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Eugene Zhuravlev
> > > IntelliJ Software, http://www.intellij.com/
> > > "Develop with pleasure!"
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