[phobos] date related failure in dmd test suite

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Thu Jan 20 12:24:17 PST 2011



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.


More information about the phobos mailing list