On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Dragan Krnic wrote: > > The way it works now in the sources, Samba goes out of its way > to force Windows clients to see the file times the way Unix and > other more mature systems see them. If a file was modified at > noon 12:00:00 of any day, it shows 12:00:00 always, regardless > of the date on which it was modified or the date on which one > is beholding it. Samba does it by subtracting from the real GMT > in the timestamps the difference between "TimeDiff(timestamp)" > and "get_serverzone()", which means that it fakes the timestamp > GMT in such a way that Windows still see the right time and not > the wrong Windows time, which is actually what everybody wants > to see, so that pacemakers don't stop and rod injectors don't melt.
If anyone is relying on date & timestamps under Windows (or even using any general-purpose OS!) for such safety-critical things as pacemakers and nuclear reactors, then we have a much bigger problem ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba