New setting: NewTimeZoneMethod=2

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New setting: NewTimeZoneMethod=2

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Now we (in in the CEST zone) just entered daylight saving time - and again this issue annoys me.

As it is said here: viewtopic.php?p=277139#p277139 - NewTimeZoneMethod=0 is ideal when you use FAT32 - and NewTimeZoneMethod=1 is ideal for NTFS.

So I suggest a new setting: NewTimeZoneMethod=2
Which would work as setting 1 on NTFS drives and as setting O on FAT drives (and inside archives) - is that feasible?
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Re: New setting: NewTimeZoneMethod=2

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2petermad
What about timestamps in archives - zip, rar, 7z?
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Re: New setting: NewTimeZoneMethod=2

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What about timestamps in archives - zip, rar, 7z?
They seem to follow the FAT method, as I wrote: "(and inside archives)" - at least for zip files

EDIT: Tested 7z and rar files. 7z files behaves like NTFS and rar files behaves like FAT.
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Re: New setting: NewTimeZoneMethod=2

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There may be different behaviour for old rar and rar5 archives.
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Re: New setting: NewTimeZoneMethod=2

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There may be different behaviour for old rar and rar5 archives.
You are right I just tested with an old rar v. 4.10 - it behaves like NFTS.
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