INFO: Time Stamps Under the FAT File System

ID: Q101186

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API), used with:
- Microsoft Windows NT versions 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4.0
- Microsoft Windows 2000

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.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbAPI kbDateTime kbFileIO kbKernBase kbWinOS2000 kbDSupport kbGrpKernBase
Version : winnt:3.1,3.5,3.51,4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo