From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Linux 9p timestamps
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:20:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4e6962a0607302020w2a9c6c01ia191191698a81b59@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527cb238df9a41e8b1649fcacb723f94@quanstro.net>
On 7/30/06, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> yes. unix and plan 9 both use seconds since epoch to
> represent the date and both use an epoch defined in the
> GMT timezone.
>
> there shouldn't be any conversion required as the timezone+dst
> offset needs to be added only for display.
>
> - erik
>
> On Sun Jul 30 14:51:52 CDT 2006, forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:
> > >It would then be the responsibility of the client to adjust for
> > >his/her local time zone.
> >
> > isn't the value of ctime and mtime always in gmt, even on linux?
> > on unix it was only the programs calling ctime (or relatives)
> > that finally adjusted for local time, typically before displaying it.
> > i don't see how the client kernel would or should get involved.
>
okay - I'll bite -- so what's csant's problem then?
-eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-31 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-30 5:53 [9fans] " csant
2006-07-30 15:18 ` [9fans] " Eric Van Hensbergen
2006-07-30 19:48 ` C H Forsyth
2006-07-30 22:17 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-31 3:20 ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2006-07-31 7:27 ` Steve Simon
2006-07-31 18:50 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-31 19:27 ` Lluís Batlle
2006-07-31 20:24 ` csant
2006-07-31 20:57 ` Steve Simon
2006-07-31 22:04 ` csant
2006-07-31 22:33 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-31 23:06 ` csant
2006-07-31 22:12 ` Anthony Sorace
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