I think this "day light savings" time stamp issue also affects Win98 as well - at least on a Win98 PC I use. Rsync insists on updating all the files fully. Shouldn't it just be resetting the times on the files if the files are the same size - or am I missing something here?
Lachlan. >Your description is as confusing as the KB article (at least >to me). Part of the problem with the KB article is that it >focuses on localtime displays rather than internals. > >.From what i can tell FAT stores timestamps in localtime. >NTFS uses a GMT based timestamp. > >I can see one of two places where we get bit. As a matter >of curiosity i'd like to know which. > >1. When the FAT timestamps are converted to GMT it is done > based on the current TZ offset rather than the TZ offset > in effect when the timestamp was made. > >2. The NT equivalent of stat(2) is converting the NTFS > timestamps to localtime and then the cygwin libs convert > it back to GMT. > >It would appear that the problem could be avoided either by >using NTFS or FAT filesystems. Yes? It certainly sounds >filesystem dependant. > >I'd guess that the correct place to fix this is in the >cygwin libs. They could be tweaked to recognize the TZ >calculation error of the NT libs. There might need to be a >test for filesystem type (if possible) or a switch to >determine behavior otherwise what fixes some will break >others. ----------------------- Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14) for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction Birkbeck University of London and Daresbury Synchrotron Laboratory Postal Address: CCP14 - School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX, London, UK Tel: (+44) 020 7631 6850 Fax: (+44) 020 7631 6803 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Room: B091 WWW: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html