Re: An experiment about file timestamp

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> writes:

> 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.


Yes, that was it.  So the experiment only proves my miserable error... :)

Sorry, thanks to all

Rodolfo