On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: > 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? Oh, Jesse Jesse, you can do better than that! [summer@gw mail]$ date;touch /tmp/fred;\ls -l /tmp/fred; TZ=UTC \ls -l /tmp/fred Mon Sep 8 10:27:08 WST 2003 -rw-rw-r-- 1 summer summer 0 Sep 8 10:27 /tmp/fred -rw-rw-r-- 1 summer summer 0 Sep 8 02:27 /tmp/fred You have mail in /var/spool/mail/summer [summer@gw mail]$ > > -- Please, reply only to the list. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
