[osiris] Re: Osiris and DST on Windows

[David Vasil]

Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
> This bug do exists for a few years already.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cyber Dog" <cyberdog3k at gmail.com>
> To: <osiris at lists.shmoo.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:22 AM
> Subject: [osiris] Osiris and DST on Windows
> 
> 
>> Hi,
>>   I'm running the latest Osiris on a couple Windows boxes (one XP, one
>> Server 2003).  I got a rather unpleasant surprise the other night when
>> daylight savings time ended.  Apparently the change in time caused the
>> entire database to have modified ctime and mtime values on the next
>> scan, each off by an hour.  Since I have the logs emailed to me for
>> auditing, I was greeted with emails of several megabytes for each
>> machine.  I don't know if this is more of a Windows or an Osiris
>> issue, but it would be really nice if Osiris could somehow compensate
>> for it.

I also can verify this issue within Osiris on Windows XP Pro.  Doing a
'dir' before daylight savings and after shows the change in mtime/ctime
as well, so I'm not certain this is a bug within Osiris, rather a bug
(most likely a "feature") in how Windows handles DST.  Seems like a
strange way to handle the time change though.

-- 
-Dave