Wednesday 25 January 2012

Windows not too clever with Daylight Savings

It's a common gripe with Windows that it's not very clever when it comes to timezones. In this particular example, it has got confused about Daylight Savings in February vs July for timestamps on files.

Linux version:
drwx------  2 mischief users 4096 2010-08-04 11:05:27 +0100 Mail
drwxr-xr-x  4 mischief users 4096 2011-05-18 15:09:58 +0100 bin
drwxr-xr-x  3 mischief users 4096 2011-02-22 10:20:41 +0000 lib
drwxr-xr-x  3 mischief users 4096 2011-04-18 11:35:29 +0100 p4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 mischief users   55 2011-05-16 15:10:49 +0100 test-common -> /home/mischief/p4/main/test


Windows XP version:
07/07/2011  09:08    <DIR>          .
15/07/2010  09:16    <DIR>          ..
18/04/2011  11:35    <DIR>          p4
18/05/2011  15:09    <DIR>          bin
04/08/2010  11:05    <DIR>          Mail
01/01/1601  01:00    <DIR>          test-common
22/02/2011  11:20    <DIR>          lib

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