Re: Cygwin port and daylight savings time

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 10:54:43AM +0200, Ulrich Herrmann wrote:
> I am using the cygwin port to have folder on the hard drive updated on 
> a webdav site. This worked fine until the point when here in Germany 
> the time changed from normal time to daylight savings time. At this 
> point sitecopy claimed that all files on the server were outdated. 
> However after patching the proper xml file in .sitecopy/ by 
> subtracting 3600 from the modification time everything worked again.
> 
> Is there a better way to fix this?

I could only guess this is an artefact of the way CygWin maps between 
the native clock and Unix time_t values; it wouldn't happen in Unix.

Always using "state checksum" is the best option, in any case.

Regards,

joe
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