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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 66409] do not Change the mbox on creating index
From:       Ingo "Klöcker" <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-10-29 1:25:41
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------- Additional Comments From kloecker@kde.org  2003-10-29 02:25 -------
Subject: Re:  do not Change the mbox on creating index

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 01:55, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Sorry, Ingo, but that doesn't make sense. Your clock did not
> go back, your timezone went forward. File modification times are
> stored in universal time, which is not affected by daylight savings
> or timezones.

Well, a comment in the source code says that touching the mbox file 
fixes a problem with the daylight saving -> normal time switch. 
That's all I can say. I assumed that the person who made this fix 
actually tested this.

> Clocks aren't supposed to go back. That is, you're not supposed to
> have files with modification times in the future. KMail could simply
> check that the mailbox files have modification dates in the future
> and, then, touch them.

Thanks for the suggestion.

> Have you tried running make with a skewed clock?

No, but we received enough bug reports from people using NFS servers 
with clocks that are not in sync with the clocks of the NFS clients.
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