On Thursday 20 January 2011 12:24:17 Walter Bright wrote: > Brad Roberts wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Walter Bright wrote: > >> Jonathan M Davis wrote: > >>> It looks like Don took care of it. It hadn't even occurred to me to > >>> look at dmd's tests, since I haven't touched dmd, so I didn't catch > >>> it. As it is, I barely caught that that functionality needed to be in > >>> std.datetime, since IIRC std.zip is the only thing that uses it in > >>> Phobos, and it never would have occurred to me to care about DOS > >>> anything these days. Fortunately, it looks like it was any easy fix, > >>> since I did get that functionality into std.datetime. > >> > >> DOS file times can happen when you try to read a floppy disk. DOS file > >> systems have persisted long after DOS itself died. > > > > Sounds like a misnaming then.. is it DOS or is it FAT? Does NTFS use the > > same date formats? > > The Microsoft documentation refers to it as a DOS file time. > > NTFS uses different date formats.
I should _hope_ that NTFS doesn't use it. The range of dates that it covers is extremely limited. 32-bit time_t is bad enough... - Jonathan M Davis _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
