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Updated notes on DST issues with MS-DOS 2.00 OEM disk images
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jeffpar committed Aug 17, 2019
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@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ What's wrong with that process? Well, as I discussed in "[Daylight Savings Time
in FAT disk images are purely *local* times; they reflect whatever time zone and DST adjustment was in effect at the time
they were created, but there is no record of *which* time zone or DST adjustment was used. Unfortunately, when certain modern
operating systems (e.g., macOS) mount a FAT disk image, they try to partially compensate for that shortcoming, by quietly
applying a DST adjustment to any timestamps that are either inside or outside of DST, and that determination is based on whether
applying a DST adjustment to any timestamps that were either inside or outside of DST, and that determination is based on whether
the *current* date is inside or outside of DST, which makes the alteration even more insidious. Last but not least, if the
disk image was created in a region that didn't honor DST, or you are *currently* in a region that doesn't honor DST, then any
disk image was created in a region that didn't use DST, or you are *currently* in a region that doesn't use DST, then those
DST alterations will be based on invalid assumptions. As I blogged back in 2017, Daylight Savings Time is a serious headache
for archivists.

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