Re: [Freemint-discuss] Timezone and timestamp

[Peter S. <p....@sc...>]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 19:41:24 , Thorsten Otto <ad...@th...> wrote:
> On Montag, 26. März 2018 15:32:28 CEST Peter Slegg wrote:
> > but in Thing they are shown with a time of 1 hour ahead.
>
> I think this is because Thing is compiled by Pure-C, which does not have a
>
> complete timezone database. Sometimes setting the TZ environment variable
>
> helps, but not always, and you have to remember to change that accordingly
>
> when switching to/from summertime.
>
>

I haven't been changing the TZ for summer, I had assumed Mint took care of the
time change.

rsync doesn't recognise the time changes either. It always copies files because
it thinks there is a 1hr difference in the filestamp.

If I rsync a folder in March (GMT) and then rsync it is June (BST) it will copy
the file again but the file hasn't changed.

It gets confusing because you never know which is a the real date-time.


Peter