RE: [jamboost] Timestamps

From: Markus Scherschanski (mscherschanski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-05 09:26:29

The solution would be, that a timestamp is only different when it differs
more than 2 seconds.

Regards,
Markus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Knight [mailto:knight_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:27 PM
> To: 'jamboost_at_[hidden]'
> Subject: Re: [jamboost] Timestamps
> 
> 
> > Does Jam handle this Bug between NTFS and FAT ??? (look at 
> quotation)
> > 
> > "Fat file systems, as used by Windows 95, can only store 
> time-stamps to the
> > nearest 2 seconds and this can cause problems when 
> comparing with files
> > stored on an NTFS file system as used by Windows NT4, which 
> maintains
> > time-stamps to an accuracy of milli-seconds."
> > It's seems to be a common problem while copying/making libraries and
> > confuses most makes.
> > If not, we should implement this.
> 
> What would be the fix, within jam itself? I'm not sure what 
> Jam (or any
> tool using timestamps) can do to work around a ibehavior like 
> this that
> is inherent to the underlying OS and file systems...
> 
> --SK
> 
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