David J Taylor wrote:
Interesting that I have never seen any of these so-called problems in my
own software! Mind you, all my stuff uses UTC internally - perhaps
that's why!
It depends on how you get UTC. If you're using something like stat()
you will be seeing the problem since your time_t values will be wrong
for half your files (unless you're on FAT32). If you're getting it from
GetFileTime directly from NTFS then it will (probably) be right.
It's precisely because I write software that uses UTC internally that
it's such a big issue - I rely on UTC being a fairly reliable constant,
so that clients across the world are using the same timebase.. with the
Win32 bugs this wasn't true and it kinda broke stuff. Ancient history
though... there are fixed routines dating back to 2001 -
http://www.codeproject.com/datetime/dstbugs.asp
Tony
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