Eclipse acting strange this week?

Hobbes

If so, might be because of this...

http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse-dev/msg00266.html

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There is a problem with daylight savings time which users may experience.
These issues are outlined below.


Who will be affected:
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Users who run with their workspaces living on FAT file systems and have
their system clocks automatically adjusted for daylight savings time.

Problem:
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Both Core and CVS use the timestamps of the files on disk to represent the
synchronization information (both local and remote) for resources in the
workspace. As a result, some users will see strange behaviour after their
local systems have adjusted their clocks for daylight savings time.

Symptoms:
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1). All resources in the workspace will appear to be out of sync with the
local file system.
2). When synchronizing with the CVS repository, all resources in the
workspace will look like they contain outgoing changes. (a structure
compare reveals that they haven't really changed)

Resolution:
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Work-around for problem #1:
Users must perform a "Refresh from Local" on all of their projects in
their workspace.

Work-around for problem #2:
- In Windows, go into your Date & Time properties, click on "Time Zone",
and un-check the "Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings changes"
check box.
- Apply changes.
- Refresh from local on all projects in the workspace
- Team -> Synchronize with Repository. Note this should only show the
changes which are "real"
- Release your changes.
- Change your time zone setting back.
- Refresh from local on all projects in the workspace
- Replace with -> Latest from Repository

mr_angry

Nice one Hobbes! Hadn't had that problem so far, but I'd been working locally for most of this week and hadn't really looked at the remote repository.

Well, since its open source anyway, hopefully they'll have a fix before the Autumn equinox!