idifference timestamp changes are the same (problem)

[D M]

I ran into a problem (Python 2.6 on Ubuntu) where running an idifference against to XML files from iwalk flagged nearly every file as having a changed time (ctime, mtime, atime, crtime) and proceeded to indicate changed xxxxx -> xxxxx where the times were identical.

Speculating that perhaps the times had become floating point and the checks like:

                       if ofi.atime() != fi.atime():

were failing due to floating point roundoff, I changed all the checks (about 8 I think) to be the same form as the print:

                     if ptime(ofi.atime()) != ptime(fi.atime()):

                                          etc.

This resolved the problem, but I'm still not sure why it was occurring in the first place.

[Simson Garfinkel]

Thanks for the. I suspect that the problem you are dealing with is actually a problem with timezones and the lack of an overwrite for the "==" operator. 

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