Time Stamping and Daylight Savings Time

[Fred Holmes]

It appears to be a [default] characteristic of Windows [Win2k] that on the 
change from daylight savings time to standard time (and reverse) Windows 
changes the indicated time stamp of local files to reflect the time change, 
at least for all files that are time stamped less than one year 
ago.  WGET's -N switch (and similar in other programs) doesn't recognize 
this, and, this fall, proceeds to re-download all files with time stamps 
later than the time of the switchover last April, even though the files 
aren't changed, apparently because the comparison now shows the files on 
the remote host to be newer by an hour.

I'd love to see a secondary switch on the -N switch that would tell WGET to 
ignore any time difference that is less than 61 minutes.

OTOH, if anyone knows how to make Windows stop changing the time stamps, 
that would be even better.

Thanks for listening,

Fred Holmes

P.S.  I wonder what happens when someone takes a notebook into a different 
time zone and changes the time zone that the notebook OS reflects?