Hi all,
I normally keep a backup of the files on my USB drive using SyncBack. Well, I tried to take one today and all the files on my drive are one hour ahead! What's up with that! My USB drive is still on DSTime! BTW, the time on my PC is correct and updated correctly this weekend. I even had my USB drive plugged in!
Is anyone else having this problem? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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Someone here might be able to help you, but this in not the SanDisk support forum.
You might find more support over at SanDisk Support
Life is about the journey not the destination!
The Kazoo Spartan
Lighten up Spartan. Either we will help each other out or we won't.
Anyway, SanDisk support says that there is no way to correct the issue. All the files just have to be copied or restored if I want them to be the same. I asked if this was the issue for ALL SANDISK CRUZER USERS, SanDisk support told me it was. Maybe someone else is having the same problem or has a solution. I researched it and found nothing.
I'd say ask over at their forums if they have them (I'm pretty sure they do). I vaguely remember having the same issue myself, but I'm not in a US time zone, so it didn't matter. I think it's an issue with the computers themselves, as it (probably) gets the time from the system.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I found a number of references to this issue, and I think this is what's happening:
Windows 2000/XP and up uses the NTFS filesystem. All files stored in this system are timestamped in UTC time (Universal Time Code, a.k.a Greenwich Mean Time). The OS adjusts the display of the timestamps to the local time, including DST.
Most USB drives use FAT or FAT32 filesystems (as does Windoze 98). Files stored in FAT/FAT32 are timestamped with the local time displayed on the OS.
When your backup program backed up your files, it wrote them into an NTFS filesystem. This occurred during Daylight Saving time, so Windoze interpreted this as being 1 hour off from standard time, also adjusted for your time zone, and stamped the files in UTC.
Then, after the time change, Windoze re-adjusted the display of the timestamps on all the files in the NTFS volumes (where your backed-up files were), but did not change the FAT/FAT32 volumes (your USB drive). Thus, the discrepancy.
Of course, if your USB drive was formatted to NTFS, then all I said was pure hooey...
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.