From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:57:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32 API
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709041356070.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709041324420.28586@racer.site>

Hi,

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > > > 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.

Ciao,
Dscho