Re: Time-Stamp Problems, Still....

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, George Bell wrote:

> With my latest upgrade of Freedos, I get the correct times for last file
> modification.  But Norton diskeditor marks as bad many of the files that
> I have created or copied from other sources.   This seems to be result
> of invalid entries for "Create Date" and " Create Time".  For example,
> often a date in the year 2007 (07) is reported in this entry.  This
> seems to disrupt various disk and file utilities, such as scandisk and
> defrag.  Has anyone experienced similar problems?

FreeDOS currently simply ignores the creation and access times (these FAT
fields were reserved before Win9x came out.) Older versions of Norton
diskedit simply don't show them.

> Otherwise, everything is fine.  Maybe I should just ignore the problem
> and wait for the next upgrade?

Yes, this problem was easy to fix :). I adjusted the kernel code so that
it initializes these creation and access date and time fields upon
"mkdir" and "creat". The DOS API (int21/ax=5704-5707) will come later.

Bart