Re: [tlug] Erratic Rsync Behavior

[Charles Muller <cmuller-lst@example.com>]

Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On 28/04/11 00:22, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > I don't see anything unusual in your rsync command.  If you are
> > rsyncing internationally, I suppose Jim T could be right (it's a
> > one-off, or rather an annual event, due to admin screwage around
> > daylight saving time).  However AFAIK this shouldn't affect a
> > correctly configured computer with a reliable system clock (DST and
> > time zone itself affect display to humans, but internally, including
> > filesystem timestamps, it's just a count of seconds), and of course it
>
> FAT stores time with a granularity of 2 seconds... and so it is (or at
> least was) necessary to use --modify-window=1 to accommodate that when
> rsyncing to/from a Unix machine.  (Perhaps that is built into modern
> rsyncs?)  I was only guessing that there was another 3600 seconds of
> uncertainty a couple of times of year.

In any case, the same problem occurs in rsyncing to a my local Tokyo 
server, so I don't think it is a physical time lag issue.

I'll figure it out eventually.

Chuck


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