Daylight Savings time problem

[Gerald Ross]

When my XP Home notebook changed its time from Daylight Savings time, it
apparently changed the time stamp on every file to exactly one hour
earlier.
I noticed it when doing file compare with the two Windows 98 computers
on the network with it.

Any ideas why? Any way to globally change the time stamp back to the
original?

Thanks in advance.
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Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA
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Love is grand. Divorce is twenty grand.

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

No, the timestamp has not changed, as in NT OS's (NT, 2k, XP, 2003) the date
timestamp is stored as GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) - what has changed is your
offset from GMT - when most of the US goes from Daylight Savings Time to
Standard Daylight Time, we lose an hour, as a result, from 6 hours to 5
hours difference between GMT.

 

[Gerald Ross]

When I look at the file in Explorer, the date of last file change is 1
hour earlier than the same file on the windows98 machine. If I reinstall
the program on XP machine, the file date is the same as it originally
was. On file compare, it thinks the file on the other machine is newer
and wants to copy it to the XP machine. Both machines automatically
changed to the regular time from Daylight savings automatically.

No, the timestamp has not changed, as in NT OS's (NT, 2k, XP, 2003) the date
timestamp is stored as GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) - what has changed is your
offset from GMT - when most of the US goes from Daylight Savings Time to
Standard Daylight Time, we lose an hour, as a result, from 6 hours to 5
hours difference between GMT.

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Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA
............................................
Love is grand. Divorce is twenty grand.