Hello Bill! Bill> Adrian, your stat wrapping makes sense to me. What I have yet to put in, is to determine whether the current volume actually has UTC dates. Fabrice suggested using GetVolumeInformation() and that works fine too. Does CDFS have UTC times? Bill> The explination behind this mess is fairly straight forward: Bill> NT doesn't use the standard timezone handling library that Bill> everyone knows and loves in Unix land. See KB article: Bill> Q115231 for details on what Win32 actually does. Bill> Which is why FileTimeToLocalTime() can only use the current Bill> DST state, and stat() uses FileTimeToLocalTime() due to Bill> various backwards compatibility reasons. See the MS CRT Bill> source for the grungy details. Bill> glibc appears to do the correct thing by searching through Bill> the timezone's transition history and makes the appropriate Bill> adjustment. (including leap seconds) Isn't that neat? Bill> Bill Cheers, and thanks for the insight! Adrian