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From: ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey)
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Subject: Re: Trouble with Telix ZMODEM
Keywords: telix,zmodem
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.204427.578@Think.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 91 20:44:27 GMT
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In article <1991Jan14.183642.19577@mlb.semi.harris.com> routh@eltanin.rtp.semi.harris.com (Kevin Routh x622) writes:
>I think I'm having a problem with ZMODEM and/or Telix.  When I use 
>sz on my Unix machine and receive the file with Telix, the file modification
>time on the PC end is set to five hours later than the Unix file time.
>WHY????????
>--
>Kevin Routh (routh@rtp.semi.harris.com)
>Harris Corporation, Durham, NC
>(919) 361-1622


This is a guess, but the circumstantial evidence is pretty good:

Durham, NC is in the Eastern time zone. That is GMT -5 hours (midnight GMT
is 7 pm EST). So, I bet your Unix system stores the dates in GMT, and knows
that you are in EST, and subtracts five hours from the time. When you
download the files to your PC, it takes the absolute time. Your PC knows
nothing about time zones, so the file time is GMT, or +5 hours from what it
"should" be.

Again, this is only a guess -- the five hours could just be a coincidence.

--Erik
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