[9580] in bugtraq
Re: ISS Internet Scanner Cannot be relied upon for conclusive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniele Orlandi)
Mon Feb 15 03:30:53 1999
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:09:31 +0100
Reply-To: Daniele Orlandi <daniele@ORLANDI.COM>
From: Daniele Orlandi <daniele@ORLANDI.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Francis Favorini wrote:
>
> > Because it is going to be accurate on 99+% of NT systems. The file
> > timestamps are all the same when you install a hotfix.
>
> What about daylight savings, which can change the time of a file by one
> hour, which in turn can bump it to a new date?
All the timestamps should be recorded in GMT, all comparisons should be made
relying on GMT time. The only thing that changes between DST and NON DST is the
time shown to the user.
Changing saving time state is like changing time zone, 10:00 CET is the same GMT
time as 4:00 EST (it's only an example, I could be wrong).
Regdars.
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Daniele
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