I really wouldn't advise doing that. SysTime contains a long
which
represents the time in hnsecs since midnight, January 1st, 1
A.D., and that
could be written to a file quite easily. But it also contains a
reference to
a TimeZone object, so what you're doing would just be writing
its address to
disk, which wouldn't do you any good at all, since that's
specific to each
run of the program, even assuming that the object exists in
both runs of the
program (which it would for UTC or LocalTime but not for
user-constructed
time zones).
So, writing the stdTime (horrible name, I know) property to
disk would work
just fine (that's the hnsecs as a long), but you're going to
have to do
something smarter than that if you want to retain the time
zone. And you're
not going to want to try and simply cast a SysTime to a ubyte[]
and do
anything practical with that regardless.
- Jonathan M Davis
Thanks for this. I still with my C habits had the idea the time
would just be a flat struct. So in this case better to write it
as a string, which is what I have already done. I just wondered
why the other approach didn't work, and now I understand.
