Re: Daylight savings time fix for WinNT

[Derek R. Price]

"Derek R. Price" wrote:

> I've managed to isolate the problem.  Turns out it's not in the time
> libraries at all.  stat on NT returns different [acm]times depending on
> whether Daylight Savings Time (DST) is in effect or not (+3600 seconds
> during DST).  Since I can change my time zone without changing the UTC mtime
> returned by stat I can only assume that whoever wrote the Windoze stat
> function must have tried to account for DST when they didn't need to.
>
> I'm going to search MSDN for a few for a recommended solution, but if I
> can't find one I'll check in a stat wrapper that will subtract the errant
> 3600 seconds from mtime, ctime, and atime under Windoze.

Checked in.  I decided against the GetFileTime function because I didn't want to
hassle with the WinAPI that much and opted for the POSIXness of the wrapper
solution.

Derek

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