As far as I can tell, if you have silence during one of the two hours on either side of a transition from daylight to standard times, you will have timestamps that are ambiguous as to which hour they occurred it. Otherwise, the discontinuity of time stamps can be used to determine unambiguously when an event occured in GMT. One way to ensure that timestamps are unambiguous would be to schedule something that creates a timestamp on either side of the boundary. Of course, this raises the question of how 'sleep 3600' is going to act across a Daylight/Standard time boundary on NT. Brian Carrier wrote: > Lisa, ..... > If you create a file during daylight savings and get the details > during non-daylight savings, then it will be an hour early. If the ..... -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuelat_private http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication, reaching through fear, uncertainty and doubt to touch the jewel within each person and bring it to life. ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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