I can feel you. If you’re interested in the thematic, you can follow the past discussion and explanations posted in What’s coming in Roon OS 2.0 (not Roon 2.0, but Roon OS 2.0)? , starting with:
Not sure it has been mentioned here before, but there’s one issue that keeps bothering me.
On one of my ROCK NUC’s, I have an interna 4Tb SSD and an external 4Tb portable drive for the less used parts of the library.
Problem is, that the external drive (which was originally cloned on a Windows 10 based computer) is reporting file creation dates which is off by two hours. I think this has got to do with the Roon OS not taking local time zones into account.
I use robocopy scripts on one of my W…
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Yes NTFS does that but exFAT, or any other FAT variant I know of, not (unless your tz is UTC). See also: exFAT file system specification .
From exFAT Timestamp Behavior Associated with Different Operating Systems :
But for the moment the summary result is that no tool will reliably display the exFAT timestamps associated with the various tested operating systems. The tools all failed to accurately display the date an action was performed in one way or another for at least one of the operating…
With NTFS you should not encounter such issues because it clearly defines the TZ for timestamps. Also ext4 should work the same. ExFAT is recommended for portability (ability to use the drives with different machines running different OSes) of the data. Sadly the metadata, like timestamps for example, doesn’t necessarily have to have the same portability as the data.