On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 23:07:33 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > as said: please compare the timestamp on the target most likely the > timestamp on vfat contains daylight-savings which is not the case on > unix-filesystems Indeed! Thanks. Here are the outputs of fstat on two copies of the same file, just rsync-ed from the ext4 folder to the vfat ext drive: [marco@avalon LACIE]$ stat --format "%y" /home/z/photo/2011/20110719/P1110546.JPG 2011-07-19 07:28:36.000000000 +0200 [marco@avalon LACIE]$ stat --format "%y" /media/LACIE/photo/2011/20110719/P1110546.JPG 2011-07-19 06:28:36.000000000 +0200 OK, thanks you got it exactly right!!! But, now what? Is there any way to keep the drive vfat AND end this problem, without losing file modification time? I'd really like to keep the vfat simply because some of those drives are not mine (*) Marco (*) I do photo archiving for the extended family, and telling some of them to "mess with their computers" to make them read decent file systems would be... OK, pls tell me if there's another way first... -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org