Re: An experiment about file timestamp

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
> But I did the following experiment: on a computer with system time
> set to UTC, I created a file at 14:43 UTC. Then I copied it via rsync
> and ethernet cross cable to another PC with system time set to GMT,
> one hour late respect to UTC.

GMT is not (and never is) one hour later than UTC. For most purposes
you can consider GMT = UTC.

Corollary: if you've managed to get one system on UTC showing a time
one hour distinct from another system running on GMT then you've got a
clock wrong somewhere by one hour.

Chris