[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.
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