[phobos] date related failure in dmd test suite

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Thu Jan 20 11:18:59 PST 2011



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.


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