STINNER Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: About the timestamp, there are many formats:
(a) UNIX: 32 bits signed integer, number of seconds since the 1st january 1970. - file format: gzip header, Portable Executable (PE, Windows), compiled python script header (.pyc/.pyo) - file system: ext2 and ext3 (b) UNIX64: 64 bits signed integer, number of seconds since the 1st january 1970 - file format: Gnome keyring (c) UNIX: 32 bits unsigned integer, number of seconds since the 1st january 1904 - file format: True Type Font (.ttf), iTunes database, AIFF, .MOV (d) UUID60: 60 bits unsigned integer, number of 1/10 microseconds since the 15st october 1582 - all formats using UUID version 1 (also known as "GUID" in the Microsoft world) (e) Win64: 64 bits unsigned integer, number of 1/10 microseconds since the 1st january 1601 - file format: Microsoft Office documents (.doc, .xls, etc), ASF video (.asf), Windows link (.lnk) - file system: NTFS (f) MSDOS DateTime or TimeDate: bitfield with 16 bits for the date and 16 bits for the time. Time precision is 2 seconds, year is in range [1980; 2107] - file format: Windows link (.lnk), CAB archive (.cab), Word document (.doc), ACE archive (.ace), ZIP archive (.zip), RAR achive (.rar) _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2736> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com