Date: Fri, 26 Aug 94 15:08:47 -0400
From: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: storner AT olicom DOT dk, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Why TZ=EST5EDT fails 

> I'm sorry, but after reading all the mail on this subject, I still
> am not sure, how stat() should behave?  If stat() takes the time stamp
> found in the directory entry on disk, interprets this as *local* time
> and returns the according GMT time using TZ as description of local
> time zone--is this all right?

stat() should return all times as GMT times.  This means that, on DOS,
you have to use the local-time timestamps and convert them (using TZ)
to GMT times.