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Re: Time Differences/MAC Times

From: Stephen Samuel <samuel(at)bcgreen.com>
Date: Sat May 10 2003 - 13:24:47 EDT

As far as I can tell, if you have silence during one of the two hours on either side of a transition from daylight to standard times, you will have timestamps that are ambiguous as to which hour they occurred it. Otherwise, the discontinuity of time stamps can be used to determine unambiguously when an event occured in GMT.

One way to ensure that timestamps are unambiguous would be to schedule something that creates a timestamp on either side of the boundary. Of course, this raises the question of how 'sleep 3600' is going to act across a Daylight/Standard time boundary on NT.

Brian Carrier wrote:
> Lisa,

.....
> If you create a file during daylight savings and get the details
.....

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