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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Windows_file_timestamp_timezone_madness.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Windows_file_timestamp_timezone_madness.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 69e9838f2..000000000 --- a/doc/bugs/Windows_file_timestamp_timezone_madness.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -Windows has an unfortunate handling of time zones, which means that when -the time zone is changed (or DST changes), the timestamps of files also -appear to change. - -This means that after such a change, git-annex will see new mtimes, and -want to re-checksum every file in the repo. - -[[!tag confirmed]] - -> Update: Actually, I seem to have been getting confused by behavior of -> cygwin terminal setting TZ. That indeed led to timestamp changes when the -> time zone changed. I have made git-annex unset TZ to avoid this. -> -> Without TZ set, time stamps are actually stable across time zone changes. -> Ie, a simple program to read the time stamp of a file and print it -> always shows the same thing, before and after a timezone change. -> -> However, and here's where it gets truely ghastly: A program that stats a -> file in a loop will see its timestamp change when the timezone changes. -> I suspect this might be a bug in the Haskell RTS caching something it -> should not. Stopping and re-running the program gets back to the -> original timestamp. -> -> I have not tested DST changes, but it's hard to imagine it being any -> worse than the above behavior. -> -> So, that's insane then. We can't trust timestamps to be stable on windows -> when git-annex is running for a long period of time. --[[Joey]] -> -> > [[fixed|done]], using the inode sentinal file to detect when windows -> > has lost its mind, and calculating its delta from insanity. --[[Joey]] |