Change 23647: [perl #3274] [PATCH] Documentation for utime should be improved

Change 23647 by merijn@merijn-l1 on 2004/12/14 07:51:43

	Subject: [perl #3274] [PATCH] Documentation for utime should be improved 
	Date: 14 Dec 2004 06:29:23 -0000
	From: "Steve Peters via RT" <[email protected]>
	Message-ID: <[email protected]>

Affected files ...

... //depot/perl/pod/perlfaq5.pod#58 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/perl/pod/perlfaq5.pod#58 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlfaq5.pod
--- perl/pod/perlfaq5.pod#57~23466~	Tue Nov  2 04:33:57 2004
+++ perl/pod/perlfaq5.pod	Mon Dec 13 23:51:43 2004
@@ -684,9 +684,14 @@
 
 Error checking is, as usual, left as an exercise for the reader.
 
-Note that utime() currently doesn't work correctly with Win95/NT
-ports.  A bug has been reported.  Check it carefully before using
-utime() on those platforms.
+The perldoc for utime also has an example that has the same
+effect as touch(1) on files that I<already exist>.
+
+Certain file systems have a limited ability to store the times
+on a file at the expected level of precision.  For example, the
+FAT and HPFS filesystem are unable to create dates on files with
+a finer granularity than two seconds.  This is a limitation of
+the filesystems, not of utime().
 
 =head2 How do I print to more than one file at once?
 
End of Patch.