Python 2.5.1 broken os.stat module

[Joe Salmeri]

> Please understand that it is *extremely* tedious to follow your
> messages. It would have been much better if they had been short and
> to the point.

Sometimes it seems that it is impossible to please people.

When messages are short then people complain that they did not get 
sufficient details, or examples.

I provide details and tests so that anyone could easily attempt to duplicate 
exactly what I said was happening and you complain that they are too long.

Baring any typo mistakes on  my part, performing the tests should produce 
the exact results that I stated were happening.

> That is very hard to believe. CVS and backup programs use the UTC time
> stamp, and completely ignore the timezone. So when you agree that the
> UTC time stamp did not change, CVS and the backup programs will work
> just fine.

The CVS problems were mentioned in the article I linked to and were 
discussed by people involved in CVS development.  Whether you choose to 
believe all those people or not is up to you.

See my reply to Terry, from the end user perspective, the Windows behavior 
does not make sense.

Short enough?