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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Flame: Problem with zoo: restoring times
Message-ID: <13152@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 16 Feb 89 13:33:48 GMT
References: <2880@mhres.mh.nl> <5698@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2884@mhres.mh.nl>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <2884@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
	...
| Another Flame On!
| 
| Why do you adjust file times according to timezones?
| A file created at 12:00 GMT will have its time stamped 12:00 GMT
| whatever timezone it was created, archived or extracted.
| File times are stored internally relative to GMT. When stored
| this way, they should be retrieved this way. No need to change it.

  I don't understand this comment at all. Files are stored internally
*where* as GMT? The only o/s which does this (as far as I know) is UNIX,
and zoo runs on seven other o/s flavors.

  Am I missing something?
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