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Are Windows file timestamps timezone aware?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202620591 views
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I have a file that was modified either before or after it was sent to me. However, it was created in a different time zone, so if the modification date is in the timezone of the sender, he was the last to modify it. If it is in my timezone, I modified it. So, do you know if Windows file modificatio…

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The time zone is an artefact of conversion from "instants" to a human-readable date-and-time in some calendar. Computers do not like human-readable formats (not as much as humans, at least), so they usually store instants in a zone-neutral format. F…

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