[phobos] date related failure in dmd test suite

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Thu Jan 20 12:08:12 PST 2011


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?


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