what Time Zone is used for the screenshot files ?

AthenaAtDelphi · 10-13-2010, 08:50 AM

I took this screenshot at circa 14:06 (the time on my K3) .

The resulting GIF file in the H:\documents folder has these time-properties :
Created: 12:06:05
Modified: 12:06:04
Accessed: [time is not mentioned]

My K3 arrived with the Time Zone set to GMT+02:00 (which is correct: GMT+01:00 plus 1 hour SummerTime) .
So, it looks like the K3 uses GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) for the time-properties of the screenshot files .

Is that correct ?
Perhaps only for European Kindle owners ?

el_brio · 10-13-2010, 09:15 AM

Why is this important exactly?

AthenaAtDelphi · 10-13-2010, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by el_brio

Why is this important exactly?

I'm a software engineer.
I need to know these things.

Tiersten · 10-13-2010, 04:24 PM

*NIX based systems generally have the RTC set to UTC which is pretty much GMT for most purposes.

AthenaAtDelphi · 10-15-2010, 02:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AthenaAtDelphi

So, it looks like the K3 uses GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) for the time-properties of the screenshot files .

Is that correct ?
Perhaps only for European Kindle owners ?

Has anyone checked this on their K3 ?

10-13-2010, 08:50 AM	#1
AthenaAtDelphi "Gnothi Seauton" Posts: 58 Karma: 134 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Netherlands Device: Asus Eee 1000H, BeBook Mini, Kindle 3 WiFi	what Time Zone is used for the screenshot files ? I took this screenshot at circa 14:06 (the time on my K3) . The resulting GIF file in the H:\documents folder has these time-properties : Created: 12:06:05 Modified: 12:06:04 Accessed: [time is not mentioned] My K3 arrived with the Time Zone set to GMT+02:00 (which is correct: GMT+01:00 plus 1 hour SummerTime) . So, it looks like the K3 uses GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) for the time-properties of the screenshot files . Is that correct ? Perhaps only for European Kindle owners ?

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el_brio Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 30 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Commodore 64	Why is this important exactly?

10-13-2010, 04:24 PM	#4
Tiersten Guru Posts: 987 Karma: 8641 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle 3G+WiFi	*NIX based systems generally have the RTC set to UTC which is pretty much GMT for most purposes.