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i'm using eclipse with a project out of cvs. my eclipse is 3.0. we use a pretty task (JavaStyle.jar) to format source code that has been changed. it is cvs aware and only formats files that have been changed since their cvs update. my problem is that after using eclipse for a while, javastyle only works sporadically. i haven't been able to pinpoint what in eclipse causes the javastyle to stop working. i know that when first checking out a new project, setting up all the libraries, and paths and such. changing a file, then javastyle works. i also don't recall having any troubles with javastyle using eclipse 2.x. so, Michael Valenta on the newsgroups says that i should compare the Entries file for each cvs update (command line .vs. eclipse). so here's what i have from eclipse: /AcdvBean.java/1.7/Tue Aug 24 18:23:42 2004// /AcdvTest.java/1.4/Mon Aug 23 18:05:26 2004// and from command line: /AcdvBean.java/1.7/Tue Aug 24 19:23:42 2004// /AcdvTest.java/1.4/Mon Aug 23 19:05:26 2004// maybe it's showing GMT times there, i'm not sure. the AcdvBean.java was checked in around 3:23 p.m. EDT. if so, then the command line cvs seems to have the correct time, since there's 4 hrs difference now between EDT (daylight savings) and GMT.
This is a known issue involving a shortcoming in java.io.File (see bug 15133 for more details). It has always existed but it depends on the file system in use and whether daylight savings is in effect. It is strange that the tool you are using is missing changes due to this. Ussually the problem is that files that aenot changed appear to be changed. I suspect that the tool your using is performing a greater than check on the date when it should be performing a equality check. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15133 ***
