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From: kevin@sol.UUCP (Kevin Kelleher)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PCNFS 3.0 bug
Summary: Daylight savings time bug
Keywords: Daylight, time, pcnfs
Message-ID: <104@sol.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 20:28:26 GMT
References: <482@sequoia.UUCP>
Reply-To: kevin@sol.UUCP (Kevin Kelleher)
Organization: Xilinx Inc.
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Tom Bernhard wrote:

>I have noticed that the timestamps on files I created before daylight savings
>came into effect now show the times to be 1 hour off. For example I created
>a file named "demo" and its timestamp is 3-08-89  4:57p. Now when I do
>a dir on that file, it has a timestamp of 3-08-89  5:57p. My setup is just
>like the nfsconf says it should be. It sets TZ = CST6CDT. 
>
>On the file server, unix says the timestamp of the same file is 16:57 which is 
>the correct time. After further testing I believe that PCNFS 3.0 does the
>TZ stuff wrong. Does anyone know of a work around?

I discovered the same bug and reported it to Sun, they said the
problem was that the compiler used to compile PC-NFS didn't know
about congress's most recent change to the daylight savings time rules
and would go away when the compiler thought daylight savings time
was going to start.

I fix for next year is supposed to be in the next release.

Note: version 2.0 has the same bug.