On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Mark W. Knecht wrote:
> Michael,
> Interesting ideas, and I should have stated earlier, that the date
> command does show the correct time, and the correct time zone. At least I
> believe it does as it states 'PDT'. I'm in California, so I assume this is
> Pacific Daylight Time, or what ever the correct decoding of that is....
Hmm, my system doesn't seem to exhibit this behavior:
- BIOS clock set to UTC
- Timezone set to MST (Arizona)
- Windows timezone set to MST (Arizona)
I suspect the magic may be in the BIOS clock setting and timezone
configuration for Linux. You could probably reset windows to think it is
in UTC, which would probably get the times on the files right, but would
cause incorrect timestamps on things like emails.
It would probably be best though to set your BIOS clock to UTC, and then
setup Linux to tell it that the BIOS clock is set to UTC. The specific
way of doing this varies by distribution. RedHat-like systems have a file
in /etc/sysconfig with a setting for UTC/GMT.
> Mark
>
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> Torrie
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:34 PM
> To: Win4lin-Users
> Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Time on files
>
>
> Your computer's time zone is probably not set right. It probably thinks
> it's running in GMT. Since windows knows the time zone, everything
> appears right. (This is a guess.) Linux stores all file dates according
> to unix epoch time, based on GMT. If you set your timezone (hopefully
> someone will chime in with instructions on how to do this -- I can't
> remember right now), you should things right.
>
> Does the 'date' command in linux show you the correct timezone, or GMT, or
> something different?
>
> Anyway, perhaps this is the problem.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Mark W. Knecht wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> > I was using Win4Lin today. Everything was operating fine. However, I
> > noticed something very strange.
> >
> > I run Quicken under Win4Lin, and because of instability in Win4Lin have
> > come to back up my files every time I exit Win4Lin. No big deal. Once a
> week
> > I copy the backup files to another PC on my network. Today, when I went to
> > make my copy to another machine, I noticed that the date of the files said
> > 4/13, instead of today's date of 4/12. I looked at the dates in Windows,
> and
> > Windows says 4/12, but Linux says 4/13. Actually, the time seems advanced
> on
> > my PC by 8 hours. In Windows the file says 4/12 @ 4PM but Linux says 4/13
> at
> > midnight.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing anything like this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
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