Re: [Freemint-discuss] Mint handling of file timestamps

[Helmut K. <hel...@is...>]

Am 08.11.2017, 04:19 Uhr, schrieb Thorsten Otto:

> - If you think thats a bug in Teradesk, or Aranym: thats not quite true
> either. That inconsistency will also occur when using only ext2fs  
> filesystems.

On an ext2-fs inside MiNT (no host-fs, only ext2) the times of files  
created in summertime are correct. At least if the program is using  
mintlib (TZ=Europe/Berlin).

I only observe discrepancies between host-fs-file-time and MiNT-file-time  
- for example st_mtime differs, using the ancient version of mintlib I use  
with pure-c. I once tried to fix it in hostfs.cpp in my private  
aranym-version (something with tm_gmtoff) but that is still not 100% it  
seems.

> The problem here is that functions like Fstat64() report UTC timestamps  
> (if
> the filesystem supports it, but most do, except tosfs), while eg.  
> Dxreaddir()
> returns the extended information in the old xattr structure, where the
> timestamps are converted to local time, using the global timezone  
> variable.

Do you have a testcase that demonstrates the problem without any  
aranym-interaction?