On 04/23/2013 03:31 PM, Bill Davidsen issued this missive:
I am getting some data on mountable media, and the device which writes the files runs in EST or whatever you want to call five hours west of Greenwich with no daylight time. The problem is that on a FAT or ISO-9660 filesystem, the date and time seem to all jump an hour during daylight time. Is there a better way to get the time correct than to run a separate system which doesn't use daylight savings? I have tried exporting TZ=EST5 (or EST or UTC-5 or GMT-5) to the mount command or the rsync command, that doesn't seem to help anything, I need the incoming data treated as EST, while the machine is at EST5EDT.
Hopefully you have the "System clock uses UTC" set on your Linux system. If so, then all internal timestamps use UTC. They are converted to local time when displayed (via "ls" or whatever). Winblows boxes don't do that...they use the local time as the timestamp mechanism, so there's the rub (also the cause of many issues with dual-booting machines). You can either set your Linux box to not use UTC as the system clock (I don't like that) or just deal with the idiocy that is Windows. It's your system and your call. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "I was contemplating the immortal words of Socrates when he said, - - 'I drank WHAT?'" -- Val Kilmer in "Real Genius" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
