time zone question

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Richard Kreiss propounded (on Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 01:11:37PM -0500):
| 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?

Gedankenexperiment:
One computer, one login.
Find the timestamp for some file.
Change the copmputer's timezone.
What should now be seen as the timestamp?

Create a new file, observe its timezone.
Revert the computer's timezone to what it was.
Check the timestamp of that new file.

Alternate experiment:
Be on the phone with a user across the country.  
Compare the timezone each of you sees for the same file.

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JP