On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 08:46 -0500, Henry Miller wrote: > >In my opinion system time stamps etc are not a reliable means of > >comparing 2 files. Many things can change the timestamp of a file, > >without changing the contents, and one (server) os/filesystem can > >report a different file size to another (local) for the same file > >(contents). As I said already, I think having a version number > >embedded in the databse itself is much more relible. > > You should be running NTP (network time protocol) on all computers. > This will keep all your system times to within milliseconds. Unix > systems keep the last modified times tamp separately. Microsoft > Windows sets (resets? I can never remember) the archive bit, which > could be abused to tell you when a file is modified - at the cost of > breaking backups so I can't recommend it.
NTP isn't relevant. Set the mtime to whatever you saw on the server using wstat() or utime() or what have you. Don't bother trying "to get close".
