> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Friedrich [mailto:axel.friedrich.NOT / VALID.de] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:14 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: File.mtime: Bug on Windows?
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I think, there is a bug in File.mtime, unfortunately:
> 
> Using:
>   ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
>   Windows XP with NTFS filesystem
> 
> When reading File.mtime( 'any existing filename'),
> the result is different by one hour, when doing this with the 
> computer clock set to a daylight saving time (DST) and doing this 
> with the computer clock set to a standard time.

The bug, if you are correct, is in the Windows' implementation of _stat
(or _stat64).

I think your best bet is, perhaps using the Perl module as a baseline,
to submit a patch to win32.c to ruby-core, keeping in mind that future
versions of Windows just might fix this bug.

Regards,

Dan