Ross Levis wrote: > The recent daylight savings change in the US has highlighted a problem in my > program. I need to detect if a file has changed since it was loaded. I'm > doing that by storing the modified date/time of the file when it is loaded > and checking the file date/time every few seconds. > > Windows physically stores the date/time of files in GMT (I believe) and > applies the time zone offset when reading the date/time via API calls.
NTFS uses UTC; FAT uses local time. > Does anyone know if there is an API call that retrieves the raw (GMT) > date/time without it being converted to the current locale? GetFileTime or FindFirstFile. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724290.aspx -- Rob _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
