INFO: Time Stamps Under the FAT File System

Last reviewed: November 26, 1997
Article ID: Q101186

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API) included with: - Microsoft Windows NT versions 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4.0

SUMMARY

Windows NT considers the time stamp on a file stored on a FAT (file allocation table) partition to be standard time if the current time is standard time, and daylight time if the current time is daylight time, regardless of what time of year the file was originally time stamped.

This is not an issue under NTFS, which consistently implements Universal Coordinated Time.

Keywords          : BseFileio
Version           : WINNT:3.1,3.5,3.51,4.0;
Platform          : winnt
Issue type        : kbinfo

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Last reviewed: November 26, 1997
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