OpenEuphoria

Re: file properties with DIR function : Bug ?

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Aug 21, 2006
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chadal wrote:
> To be sure about my problem, i've wrote a small euphoria program using the
> dir32 library from archives. I've used FileTimeToLocalFileTime and
> FileTimeToSystemTime
> functions from kernel32.dll. the result confirms the différenc between the
> euphoria
> DIR function and windows functions.
>  Is it an installation trouble ?
>  To understand what's happened, what kind of checks can i do ?

I'm not sure what you mean by the "dir32" library, unless it's
Overman's dir232.zip (which I haven't looked at). 
I support the standard dir() in Euphoria. I don't know why the 
time stamp on a file could differ by 2 seconds in some cases. 
I haven't noticed it on my machine using dir(). 
I simply retrieve a C structure, and have to multiply the "seconds" 
field by 2, since for some reason Microsoft doesn't store the "seconds" 
but rather the "seconds divided by two". Maybe it's a Y2K bug   
Maybe in Europe Windows adjusted the clock at the turn 
of the millennium? Maybe it depends on the version of Microsoft's
file system that you are using. I have no idea.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com