[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #64933] Stat sometimes produces wrong timestamp

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #64933 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Need Info              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

What is the correct behavior of stat in that case?
I can imagine that some (long-time) measurement that uses mtime as a time
stamp would not want to get a sudden jump of 1 hour (or something else) just
because the time zone changed on the system that modified the file.
In that case, the behavior of `stat` like you describe it for filenames might
be preferred.
But there might also be other cases where the local time is preferred over a
more "universal" time...

It's definitely odd and unexpected that `stat` returns different timestamps
when passing file names or file ids.

Afaict, `stat` is an Octave-only function. So, Matlab-compatibility is no
concern. But cross-platform behavior might be:
What is the behavior on Linux?



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