Tiny bug (4.01): Modified/Created date
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When I try to open a file which has these dates...
Created: 1. jaanuar 1601. a., 2:07:09
Modified: 8. jaanuar 2962. a., 18:42:40
Accessed: 1. jaanuar 1601. a., 2:07:09
... then Notepad++ just crashes.
I wonder what's causing it. Notepad++ doesn't seem to do anything with these dates...
This file was generated using SetFileTime().
Out of curiosity, try creating files for Jan 1st, 2038 and Jan 1st, 2039. If the first one works and the second one doesn't, I'd guess there's a Y2K38 bug in N++. That's when the 32-bit integer counter for the number of seconds in the Unix epoch runs out.
I'm having trouble creating such a file because my Unixy touch.exe won't do anything past the end of the Unix epoch, and neither will utime in Perl. With enough persistence, I'm sure I can get SetFileTime working using Win32::API in Perl, but you've obviously got something written to do that, so you might as well test it!
My gut instinct (not having ever even glanced at the N++ codebase) is that it's related to the file-update notification stuff.
:-)
--Toby Ovod-Everett