Wrong times written by mkisofs?

Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Sun Jan 20 03:11:32 PST 2008


Bob Johnson <bob89 at wb4jcm.org> wrote:

> > Let me asume you use a _recent_ mkisofs and set up a correct timezone...
> >
> [...]
> >
> > What do you get from "mkisofs -version"?
>
> mkisofs 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd6.2)

This is nearly 4 years old, why don't you use a recent version?

recent is 2.01.01a37

> > What timezone do you have (how many hours from GMT and which location)?
>
> U.S. Eastern Standard Time (EST = GMT-5)
>
> > What do you have in the TZ= variable?
>
> It seems to be empty.

So you run your system in GMT?


> > What do you see with "TZ=GMT ls -l ToJoe"?
>
> # TZ=GMT ls -l /mnt
> total 62113
> -rw-------  1 bobj  bobj  2246671 Jan 19 12:22 IMG_0660_080115_2348.JPG
> -rw-------  1 bobj  bobj  3346787 Jan 19 12:22 IMG_0661_080116_0524.JPG

You see, it did not change

> These times are the correct LOCAL time, not GMT. The following are five hours 
> off:
>
> # TZ=EST ls -l /mnt
> total 62113
> -rw-------  1 bobj  bobj  2246671 Jan 19 07:22 IMG_0660_080115_2348.JPG
> -rw-------  1 bobj  bobj  3346787 Jan 19 07:22 IMG_0661_080116_0524.JPG

You know these times already?

Something is wrong anyway, but I cannot help from remote....

Jörg

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