SUMMARY: file dates

From: system PRIVILEGED account- John F. Marten <root_at_tigger.oslc.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:43:52 -0800

thanx! to alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com who wrote:

        Dates are stored in a field which is at least 32 bits
        and in some file system implementation may be 64 bits.
        The type of this field (for programming use) is time_t.
        The value in field is the number of seconds since January
        1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT. The value should be the same on
        ALL UNIX systems.

        If zoo is using time_t correctly, there shouldn't be any
        problem.


orig. message:
preface: before we migrated from an ultrix box our users used a compression
utility called zoo. we have a lot of data stored in zoo
format. there is a problem with the way zoo works on DU4.0b. either compressing
or uncompressing the dates on the files become mangled. i mean to say they when
uncompressing they don't show the date of the file when it was last worked on.
and compressing sometimes the files get tagged with a totaly bogus date. i'm
thinking the problem has to do with how the AS1000A 5/333 stores file dates.
question: Any info on how the Alpha stores the file dates?
thanx!
Received on Tue Feb 10 1998 - 22:56:56 NZDT

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