Adaptec EZCD 3.5 screwing up the file dates.

[blstriker]

I'm trying to burn a bunch of digital photos onto a cd, but all the dates on the burned cd end up exactly 8 hours earlier than the original photo time.

I'm using adaptec 3.5c in w2k pro. Any ideas?

 

[jaywallen]

Let me guess, you live on the West Coast?

 

[bacillus]

<< Let me guess, you live on the West Coast? >>


LOL

 

[blstriker]

Yes and your point is?

 

[jaywallen]

No, I'm not being facetious. I really mean it. Left coast is 8 hours displaced from UTC. On some OSes and partition types, file date / time is shown as UTC. CD-R file date / time (in non-writable state) would be local time.

 

[blstriker]

Sorry, I took it the wrong way. The time should be written as local time, but for some reason it's not. Thanks for the reply.

 

[jaywallen]

blstriker,

Oops! I'm an old man. I said exactly the opposite of what I meant. The CD writer writes to the CD-R making use of the date / time stamp information available to it from your partition's file system. If that file system is NTFS, then the date / time stamp written to the CD will NOT be your local time, but will, instead, be UTC. Funny thing is, that if you leave the CD session open (e.g. leave the CD writable) you'll see the UTC time stamp when you look at files through DirectCD because Explorer translates to local time. FAT partitions store the time data differently, and I'm not really certain just how that would work out. I should fiddle with it some time to find out.

Sorry I typed faster than my old brain was functioning when I posted the time zone info previously. And, in retrospect, it did look like I was beeing a wiseacre with my original post. But I was actually just trying to get information to help me pinpoint your situation.

With a face like mine, people seldom think I mean business, anyway!

Regards,
Jim

 

[blstriker]

Thanks for the information. It clears things up. Sorry I took it the wrong way!

 

[jaywallen]

No problem, and no need for any apology, my friend! The written word is easily misunderstood. It's obvious that someone else thought I was being a wiseacre, too!

Regards,
Jim