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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 18 for Mac => Topic started by: Fred1 on April 05, 2013, 08:41:42 am

Title: Date Created out of phase
Post by: Fred1 on April 05, 2013, 08:41:42 am

The Date Created fields contain values that are one hour late in respect of the values of the file system.

Title: Re: Date Created out of phase
Post by: Matt on April 05, 2013, 08:52:54 am

There's some ambiguity with regards to DST.

When deciding if you should adjust one hour for DST, you can look at if DST was in effect on that date, or you can look at if DST is in effect now.

I think Microsoft themselves uses varying behavior on this across different OS versions and APIs.

Title: Re: Date Created out of phase
Post by: Fred1 on April 05, 2013, 09:34:13 am

DST is in effect here in Germany.
So it is not evaluated.

I don't know if it is the responsibility of the OS or of the application.
Finder and PathFinder list the correct times, however.

Title: Re: Date Created out of phase
Post by: MrC on April 05, 2013, 11:57:09 am

The timezone rules and time library functions in *nix systems have and use historical data for DST calculations, so you should be able to have this work consistently on this platform.