Spring forward into madness
Apr. 4th, 2019 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jbananaI have a backup that writes changed files to a USB stick, and I had exactly the problem that this bloke had: Why do file timestamps compare differently every time-change? There's no solution, so I updated the timestamps on the USB stick, and I'll have to change them back in October. Sigh.
TL/DR: Windows gets file times wrong when the clocks change, and different file systems are differently broken. Live with it.
Edit: I didn't change anything back in October - the backed-up files looked newer, so the backup process ignored them. When summer time started again, I just let it update the files that appeared to be newer (even though they weren't). More sighing. Not such a big issue, though.
TL/DR: Windows gets file times wrong when the clocks change, and different file systems are differently broken. Live with it.
Edit: I didn't change anything back in October - the backed-up files looked newer, so the backup process ignored them. When summer time started again, I just let it update the files that appeared to be newer (even though they weren't). More sighing. Not such a big issue, though.
