Any Linux gurus?

[photon]

Ok Linux is driving me up the wall. Or Windows. Or something.

I have a file on my Windows PC. I edit it, I save it. The file says it was modified at 9:56PM today. Fine.

So I use WinSCP to copy the file over the a Linux (CentOS 5 if it matters) box. I look at the file via ls and it looks fine, the date is 21:56.

BUT if I use stat on the file, it gives me 20:56 for the Modify field! This is bad because the application server (Tomcat) I think uses the modify field to decide to recompile or not, it's an hour past, so it doesn't, so my changes don't show up.

I'm not going to touch every file I upload every time I make changes (plus it's creepy).

And this started happening after the time change, so it MUST be time change related..

date and hwclock --show show the same thing.

So I'm at a loss, any suggestions?

[ken0042]

My Linux skills are behind yours Photon like my hockey skills are behind Iginla's- but is it possible to leave your Windows computer on MST for now until the end of the month when the Linux server would normally switch?

I'm thinking in Windows uncheck "automatically detect DST." If it's anything server related won't it just count backwards from GMT anyways and correct itself in the end?

[/wild stab in the dark]

[FanIn80]

I'm not sure, but I bet one of your apps isn't using the "Daylight Savings Time" setting.

[photon]

This isn't really at the app level though, unless it's WinSCP that's modifying the date when the file is in transit which would be very strange.

The file shows the right time in Windows, copy the file, it shows one hour old under one of the 3 fields linux uses for a file for its timestamp.

[photon]

And that's EXACTLY what it is, WinSCP has a setting which tells it to or to not adjust for the DST settings on Windows..

Thanks for the lead in the right direction FanIn80.

This thing's been killing me all day long.

[FanIn80]

No problem man!

[FlamingStuffedTiger]

I'm not that well versed in Linux, but my first thought was that it would be related to time conversion between the two operating systems because Unix/Linux systems store time in UTC and I believe that Windows uses a different system for tracking time. However, I find it strange how even 'ls' and 'stat' show differences. I can't see why that would be...

Interesting problem. I'll see if I can dig up something...

[photon]

ls and stat show different just because ls shows the change timestamp while stat shows change, modify, and accessed.

But it's fixed now, basically set WinSCP properly and it works fine, no creepy touching my jsp's to get tomcat to see them anymore.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by photon

ls and stat show different just because ls shows the change timestamp while stat shows change, modify, and accessed.

But it's fixed now, basically set WinSCP properly and it works fine, no creepy touching my jsp's to get tomcat to see them anymore.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who feels creepy running touch.

[Azure]

What a nerdy thread.