EnCE EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 3rd Edition
by Steve Bunting
Summary
This chapter covered a wide array of artifacts produced by the Windows operating system. Before you could examine specific artifacts, you had to consider one artifact that was common to most artifacts: time. The NTFS file system stores its MAC times in GMT, whereas FAT file systems store their MAC times in local time. FAT uses an MS-DOS time stamp for MAC times; NTFS uses the Windows 64-bit time stamp for MAC times. The Windows 64-bit time stamp measures the number of 10 millionth-of-a-second intervals since January 1, 1601, at 00:00:00 GMT.
When displaying time to the user, NTFS file systems convert the GMT time to local time using the local time offset stored in the registry. EnCase uses the default offset based on the offset for the ...
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