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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Flame: Problem with zoo: restoring times
Message-ID: <7803@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 23 Feb 89 04:43:16 GMT
References: <2884@mhres.mh.nl> <5930001@eecs.nwu.edu> <3453@sugar.uu.net> <1989Feb19.134220.29438@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <3465@sugar.uu.net> <1989Feb20.183931.13918@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <5798@bsu-cs.UUCP>
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In article <5798@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:

>There are two problems with this.  First, it forces the end user to
>go through an installation step.

How about a command line option to adjust the file times by a specified
amount?  Then you could use local time on machines that don't know GMT
and still be able to fix things if you want to install on a machine in
another time zone or one that does know GMT.  After all, if you don't
know how much the time is off, then it probably doesn't really matter.

Les Mikesell