mmhh... could be my memory plays tricks on me, but what brought me to thinking that the mtime/epoch isn't timezone corrected were a number of stats() where the time was skewed against what Windows or the CLI stat told me.

Now thinking again, I tend to accept stat() returns GMT epoch.
Still, are you sure this is consistent across *nix and Windows. Does a Perl stat() on Windows/NTFS return GMT epoch - really?
The incident where I ran into this skew, if I recall correctly, was a script that worked across filesystems (although both NTFS). It recorded the stat() on a file on a first filesystem and then duplicated the file and its stat() on a second. When I looked at the cloned file's metadata via Windows's file properties it showed a 1 hour time offset. And I couldn't quite figure out if this bug was introduced by my script, by Windows/NTFS or an ignorance of the TZ offset in stat(). stat() returning time-zone-offset'ed epochs would have beautifully explained it...

In reply to Re: stat() and time-zone-offsets? by isync
in thread stat() and time-zone-offsets? by isync

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