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Re: file properties with DIR function : Bug ?

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Aug 22, 2006
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chadal wrote:
> Sorry about my mistake. I've effectively used the Overman's dir232.zip
> library.
> 
> It is nearly like the Pete'code.
> 
> With Pete'code from its answer, do you obtain the same result on your machine
> or like me, différences for second property ?
> For some files, the différence is 1 second, and other, 2 seconds.

I tried Pete's code and checked about a dozen files.
They all showed the exact same time, including the seconds.
I used Windows XP, Service Pack 2, File System: FAT32.

I then tried my other, newer, XP machine.
The file system there is not FAT32, but rather NTFS. 
On that machine I found files that differed by
one or two seconds. In fact it seemed to be a fairly 
common occurrence. 

So I'm guesing that maybe NTFS is storing the seconds
with more accuracy, but that accuracy is lost when a
conversion is made so dir() can read the information
using the old standard DOS format. The C code I'm using 
for dir() is almost identical between DOS (using Watcom library calls) 
and Windows (using the same Watcom library calls). For other
C compilers I use different code.

I don't have any immediate plans to "fix" this though.

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