time zone question

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>Client with people logging in across the country using Terminal Server.
>Windows Server
>
>Server located in New York
>
>Login from California
>
>Program time stamps when certain files are added.  Is the time used the time
>on the server which was logged in to or the local time of the computer
>logging in?

I would ass*u*me that it uses the server time.

This is why we always store times as Unix time, seconds since the
epoch, which is UTC, and will display appropriately.

Bill
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