Oh its worse than that. Say a file is on PC-1. Then PC-2 can see a different timestamp than PC-3.
I dont know why MS could not have adopted the unix way by now. The timestamp is always stored in a standard format... its the display that varies according to the timezone. From: "Trevor Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [DUG] determining file system Date sent: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:51:22 +1200 Send reply to: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <[email protected]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Phil, There's some additional weirdness that can happen with timestamps even on a windows filesystem. "One of the file system features you may find yourself surprised by is tunneling, wherein the creation timestamp and short/long names of a file are taken from a file that existed in the directory previously. In other words, if you delete some file "File with long name.txt" and then create a new file with the same name, that new file will have the same short name and the same creation time as the original file." Here's a link to the article: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/07/15/439261.aspx Sorry, I have no ideas about Netware. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss Sent: Wednesday, 20 July 2005 11:08 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] determining file system Part of our code depends on getting the file stamp of a particular file, however on systems that have that particular file served by something like Novell Netware, that timestamp can be something other than what was expected. Is there a way to determine the file/operating/network system (whatever is the correct one to check) of a given location? Cheers, Phil. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Regards Rohit ====================================================================== CFL - Computer Fanatics Ltd. 21 Barry's Point Road, AKL, New Zealand PH (649) 489-2280 FX (649) 489-2290 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
