Hi,

We have a huge problem and can not find any information on this on the TechNet and MSDN site of Microsoft.

When we look up the creation date/time from a file, it returns a specific time, e.g. 15:05. But when the time zone changes, the time is changed to 16:05. This all happens on the server running Windows NT4.0 SP6a, file opened from a DOS box. Since we want the original date and time this is not what we want to see, we use this as a sort of copy protection.

But wait, there's more. When we do the same from a mapped network drive on a Windows 2000 Pro station with the same time zone and locale settings, we get 18:05 as the file creation time!!! And to make it even worse, from a Windows 98 SE with the same time zone and locale settings we get 17:05 as the file creation time!!!
But when we use a NET USE TIME \\server command all times are changed again, while are times where equal to the servers time. From all stations the time is set to 16:05, just like on the server.

Now this has become a complete blur. When we set the correct time zones (and we checked dates and times from the time zone information) file times differ from OS to OS and are synced when we sync the time to the servers time.

HOW COME!!!!! AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!


Jeroen.