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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Discard Date Question.
Date: 1 Dec 1994 12:24:43 -0800
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fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
> SET ATTRIBUTE DATE OFF
This is an excellent command to put in your .kermrc if you transfer
data across time zone boundaries. The current Kermit protocol does not
understand time zones, and it can munge dates by several hours when
transferring data from one time zone to another. I've had this
problem, for example, when copying files between Unix hosts and then
using `make' -- the bogus timestamps screw up the build, sometimes in
subtle ways.
Perhaps a future Kermit protocol extension can address this issue,
so that time stamps are handled properly when both hosts know about
time zones (as is the case with Unix or, for that matter, any
Posix-compliant OS).