Re: On making times=true the default

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 at 14:42, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My view is that FAT is a special case, and that FAT has time problems in
> general.  It would make sense for people using them to set times off,
> maybe, and perhaps that could be part of "-fat".  But I don't want to
> mess up people that mitigate FAT's time bugs by setting their machines
> to UTC.  I also don't really want to add kludges for it, at least not
> kludges that would affect anybody not asking for FAT kludges.

After some research, I've found out that exFAT supports timestamps
with 10 ms granularity and time zone offset information. I don't know
how many implementations actually make use of that new capability or
how commonly exFAT is used over legacy FAT.