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Re: [Bug-wget] Query about correcting for DST with Wget


From: Tim Ruehsen
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] Query about correcting for DST with Wget
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:12:54 +0100
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On Monday, November 14, 2016 5:47:36 PM CET Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 21:39:32 +0100
> > From: Jernej Simončič <jernej|address@hidden>
> > 
> > On Sunday, November 13, 2016, 19:53:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Does "while DST is in effect" mean that you download the file when DST
> > > is in effect, or you examine the timestamp of the file when the DST is
> > > in effect?
> > 
> > I download the file when DST is(n't) in effect (I download that
> > specific URL quite often, on different computers).
> 
> Then yes, it's a known problem with how the MS-Windows implementation
> of the utimes function works: it converts (internally) from local time
> to UTC using the current setting of the DST flag, not its setting at
> the time being converted.  The irony of this is that there should be
> no need to go through local time in this case, because the timestamp
> provided by Wget is in UTC to begin with, and the low-level Windows
> APIs that timestamp files accept UTC values.
> 
> If we care about this, we could have a private implementation of
> utimes in mswindows.c, which would DTRT in the use cases needed by
> Wget.
> 
> > I just remembered that there may be a 3rd explanation: some msvcrt
> > functions return different timestamps depending on whether DST is in
> > effect or not - at least with GIMP you can observe that it'll rescan
> > all fonts the first time it's run after DST change (I'm not sure if
> > this applies only to msvcrt.dll [which MinGW uses by default], or also
> > to the runtimes shipped with newer Visual Studio versions).
> 
> You are talking about 'stat', I believe.  Yes, they, too, have a
> similar bug, but 'stat' is not involved in the code in Wget that sets
> the timestamps of downloaded files.

Ah, Eli :-) Just got this mail after sending...

Then all please forget my email that I just sent...

Regards, Tim

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