Re: All files reported as modified

[erik . cumps]

Hello Derek, Daniel,

IIRC this has everything to do with NTFS which stores file times in GMT
instead of local time like FAT* does. And that goes <bang> whenever
daylight saving time changes...

I can't find any setting in Windows to get around this, and in fact tools 
like
Total Commander (a file manager not unlike Norton Commander) have
special options for this which instruct the tool to ignore any 1-hour 
differences
in file times on NTFS. (I suppose the CVS fix works along the same lines).

Just wanted to clarify that it is not so much a Windows stat() bug than it 
is
an NTFS feature. More info in this thread:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-04/msg00095.html

HTH,
Erik





Derek Robert Price <address@hidden>
Sent by: address@hidden
15/10/2003 20:39

 
        To:     Daniel Bron <address@hidden>
        cc:     "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>
        Subject:        Re: All files reported as modified


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Daniel Bron wrote:

|Geoff,
|
|Thanks, but my sandbox is on my local drive.  I joined the CVS GUI group 
as
|you recommended, though, so maybe they'll come up with something else.


There was a problem to this effect which was fixed in the CVS client in
November of 2000, between releases 1.11 and 1.11.1.  What version of the
CVS client are you using?

The bug is actually in Windows.  The Windows stat() function returns
times that are 3600 seconds (1 hour) off when daylight savings time is
in effect, contrary to the POSIX specification (which specifies that
times be returned in UTC).  CVS, since version 1.11.1, has subtracted
the extra hour from file modification times as a workaround for the
Windows bug.

Of course, you should get a six month break from your problem in a few
weeks without upgrading.

Derek

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