Hi Rainer, > creating a "tar" archive in summer (daylight saving time) and immediate- > ly listing it using > > tar --list --verbose -f ... > > and later in winter (normal time) listing it again with the same command > results in time stamps being one hour off due to time zone shifting.
Time stamps are saved in a tar archive as number of seconds since the Epoch. The timezone information is not preserved. > Is there a way to prevent this? No, there is not (apart from setting the TZ variable before running tar). Regards, Sergey
