On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 14:33:23 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >http://nyti.ms/2epoRsf > >I disagree. I would happily ditch Summer/Daylight Saving Time, but I think >time zones make life easier. If it is 8 pm in San Francisco and I am >wondering if it is too late to call my friend in New York, it is much easier >to look and say "11 pm -- probably too late" than it would be to have to say >"let's think, what UTC time do folks in New York tend to go to bed?" > I've suddenly become a more intense partisan of "Dump!" Because of USB FAT flash drives. If I plug the drive into Linux, the OS interprets timestamps as UTC. Simple enough. But OS X 10.6.8 apparently interprets them as in the time zone of the OS current longitude adjusted for whatever DST was in effect at the time the file was created, regardless of the setting of TZ in my current shell. This seems to be more Microsophisticatedly correct. Ugh!: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724290(v=vs.85).aspx
... but how should it know what timezone my GoPro was in when I snapped the picture? Now I need to fake a file timestamp as 01:30 last Sunday and see what it thinks. Or, worse, 02:30. I suppose I should set the GoPro to UTC and always capture the pictures via Linux to a real filesystem. Same undoubtedly applies to ISPF member timestamps. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
