Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!altger!fkk
From: fkk@altger.UUCP (Frank Kurt Kaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Flame: Problem with zoo: restoring times
Message-ID: <1395@altger.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 89 16:53:51 GMT
References: <2880@mhres.mh.nl> <5698@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2884@mhres.mh.nl> <13152@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: fkk@altger.UUCP (Frank Kurt Kaefer)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems Munich
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In article <13152@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
~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?

I think you are pretty right. I have compiled ZOO without too much
difficulty on OS-9/68k and it's running pretty well. But I just
removed the timezone-stuff, because in OS-9 there is only the
normal system time, although we also use TZ sometimes.

Best regards,
Frank Kaefer

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