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Nollaig MacKenzie

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Oct 20, 2009, 8:43:58 AM10/20/09
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I have a 500GB Iomega home media network drive (with
most recent firmware), used mostly for backing up a
couple of Macs.

I told the drive to synchronize date and time with my
Mac (OSX 10.4.11). It seems to do that, except that it
displays a time precisely 4 hours later than the Mac
does. Since the Mac is on EDT, presumably the drive is
showing UTC/GMT.

This is not a problem, really. I'm just curious about
why it happens. Anyone got the answer right off the top
of the head?

Cheers, N.

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Jolly Roger

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Oct 20, 2009, 11:46:42 AM10/20/09
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In article <09.293.45838....@amhuinnsuidhe.net>,
Nollaig MacKenzie <nol...@amhuinnDELETEsuidheCAPS.net> wrote:

> I have a 500GB Iomega home media network drive (with
> most recent firmware), used mostly for backing up a
> couple of Macs.
>
> I told the drive to synchronize date and time with my
> Mac (OSX 10.4.11). It seems to do that, except that it
> displays a time precisely 4 hours later than the Mac
> does. Since the Mac is on EDT, presumably the drive is
> showing UTC/GMT.
>
> This is not a problem, really. I'm just curious about
> why it happens. Anyone got the answer right off the top
> of the head?

It would seem, as you say, the drive is using a different time zone.

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