OpenEuphoria

Re: read/write file timestamp

• Posted by "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 29, 2004
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: read/write file timestamp


> 
> 
> How does one read the epoch time for a file in Eu on windoze, and then 
> apply that timestamp to another file? I know dir() lists the time and date,
> but
> that's not epoch time, and it doesn't write a new timestamp or other
> attributes
> to a file. Win32lib has a attribute set for hidden, system, compressed, etc, 
> but
> not time/date ?
> 

Kat,
I don't think Windows has a concept of epoch time. The files times are stored as
a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January
1, 1601.

And there is no API to change the datetimes (that I know of).

-- 
Derek