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Number   :  3109
Date     :  2002-11-14
Author   :  Melissa Evans
Subject  :  Re: Change to Standard Time: identical files with different times
Size(KB) :  1


Thank you, Kan, for your reply; also Chaz and Chuck.

One of the first things we tried was a comparison using the 
switch /FU. Files that should have been identical still showed a one 
hour difference. This was using either version 2.82.2 or 2.82.6.

We expect that we will copying all of the files on all of the 
machines, twice a year. It is not a problem; it is an inconvenience 
and a puzzle.

Melissa Evans
ASML Optics, LLC
Richmond, California

--- In xxcopy@y..., Kan Yabumoto  wrote:
> One more way to cope with the discrepancy is
> to use the /FU switch (as opposed to the /FL
> switch). The /FU switch converts all the files
> into the UTC value before file is compared.
> 
> Assuming the system was properly set to the
> respective time zone (the relative offset from
> the UTC), the /FU (to use the UTC-converted)
> should compensate for the temporary discrepancy.
> This is because Melissa's headache can be
> elegantly eliminated by making all necessary
> comparison done after the conversion to UTC is
> made before the comparison.
> 
> 
> Disclaimer: The timestamp compensation is always
> hard to "predict"
>
> Kan Yabumoto



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