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From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: _Last Modified_ field on Appleshare
Message-ID: <36879@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 89 06:21:18 GMT
References: <643@warlock.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <643@warlock.UUCP> gregb@dowjone.UUCP (Gregory S. Baber) writes:
>Is this right? The _Last Modified_ field for a file on the server depends
>on the time on the client machine? Is there any way we can force the 
>clients to use the server time to display the file rather than the client
>time? Or are our machines just plain broke, and we don't know it?

All files are stored on an AppleShare volume with both the created and
modified times based upon the server's clock.  However, the software doesn't
assume that the client is in the same time zone as the server, so it adjusts
the time reported to the client by the difference in the two machine's
clocks, to the nearest hour.  So, if you create a file on a server with a
client who's clock is not correct, the time and date stamps will not be
incorrect for any other clients who's clocks are not messed up.

						_emt