On Friday 05 September 2003 09:56, Pierre-Francois Honore wrote: > > No matter the time zone. I think that internal time used is UTC. TZ > > is just a user friendly feature for presentation. > > > > The reference of UNIX is : date -u > > So a file that was created with a timezone setting of EST, then the user > sets the timezone to PST, wouldn't the file have a timestamp 3 hours in > the future, or would the timestamp change to reflect the timezone? Is > the TRUE timestamp something different, and what ls et al show us is > the REAL timestamp filtered through a timezone adjustment? The timestamp is just seconds since EPOCH which has no knowledge of timezones. Cheers...james
