[osiris] Re: Osiris and DST time changes

[Alexei_Roudnev]

It (shift) happen on SOME windows macthines (may be, depending of bios
setting). Never happen on Unixes (unix reports access time as universal
time, without any timezone applying).


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Vasil" <dmvasil at ornl.gov>
To: "Osiris Users" <osiris at lists.shmoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:19 AM
Subject: [osiris] Re: Osiris and DST time changes


> Vietnhi Phuvan wrote:
> > (1) Does Osiris read the time from the host OS? If not, are you making
> > DST patches available for Osiris?
>
> Osiris uses time() for Win32 and gettimeofday() for *nix/bsd.
>
> > (2) What disruptions should we expect on Mar 11? (We are implementing
> > scanning every hour)
>
> In the past, it has been typical to see the mtime/ctime on all files
> shift by an hour.  I know this definitely happens under Windows (a dir
> from the command line also shows the mtimes/ctimes change for files
> under windows before/after DST, so it is likely not Osiris' fault).  I
> can not recollect if this happens under *nix/bsd though.
>
> -- 
> -dave
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