Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32 API

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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Johannes Schindelin schrieb:

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On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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Therefore, I've pushed out a fixup patch at the top of mingw.git's 
devel branch that converts mtime to local time

On Linux, we compare to UTC to begin with, right?  We should do that 
here, too...  So if time(NULL) does not return UTC on MinGW, we have 
to wrap that function, too.

According to MSDN, time(NULL) returns "the number of seconds elapsed 
since [epoch] according to the system clock". Please don't ask me what 
"the system clock" is.

I think I know.  From my QEmu adventures I know that DOS/Windows expects 
the system clock to be set to local time, in contrast to _all_ other 
operating systems.

Now I am utterly confused.  MSDN says

	FILETIME

	Contains a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond 
	intervals since January 1, 1601 (UTC).

Hmm.

[Warning: war stories ahead...]

If you really, really want to know more:

http://search.cpan.org/~shay/Win32-UTCFileTime-1.45/lib/Win32/UTCFileTime.pm


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