Re: Timezone issue with zip distribution

[Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>]

> On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:09 AM, David Lord wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> The last few zip file distributions I have downloaded (6.20 and 6.20g)
>> seem to have many of the file modification times one hour in the
>> future. This seems to break the make (it says something about the
>> file being modified in the future and then gets rather confused;-).
>> The tgz distribution is fine.
>>
>> I know its not a big deal - I can just wait an hour before running the
>> make, or I can use the tgz distribution (and fix the ^Ms in the info
>> file manually as I'm on windows) - but I thought I'd report it just in
>> case.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I have no idea what might causing this problem.
> Around the time of your report, I started using rsync to upload files,
> but am running it with -a switch so that the modification
> times should be correct.
>
> If anyone has an idea here, let us know.

This is very interesting.  If you are ahead of him and he downloads right
after you build and upload the package then is this not normal behaviour?

Out of curiousity, what time-zones are you and David in?

Regards,
-- 
Manish