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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Flame: Problem with zoo: restoring times
Message-ID: <5930001@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 89 21:23:43 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ comp.sources.bugs / dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) / Feb 16, 1989 /
> >File times [should be] stored internally relative to GMT.  When stored
> >this way, they should be retrieved this way. No need to change it.
> 
> The main problem with doing this is that not all operating systems
> maintain information about where they are relative to GMT.  Most users
> don't even *know* how far they are from GMT.

For those systems, is there any harm in pretending that they *are* on GMT?

Jacob