[phobos] date related failure in dmd test suite

[Jonathan M Davis]

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