RE: [Boost-Users] Re: Why isn't the "last access time" part of the filesystem library?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-10 06:23:45

At 11:21 AM 5/9/2003, Ben Hutchings wrote:

 >> What to do if the filesystem doesn't attach any time at all to
 >> a file? Fail at compile time? Always return some date in the
 >> past, like January 1, 1900, that is impossible as a real mdate
 >> (since computers were not invented yet) and so can be relied
 >> upon to indicate "no date available"?
 >
 >Use std::time_t(-1) to be consistent with std::time and
 >std::mktime.

Makes sense.

Thanks,

--Beman