Hi,

On 2016-12-23 07:22:02, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Uneven seconds test":

 WV>> Yes, I know about that. And hpt probably uses something like that for
 WV>> the internal date/time representattion before it stores it in the JAM
 WV>> messagebase. Otherwise I can't explain why that even happens in Nick's
 WV>> native linux environment...

 ml> remember there are two message format libraries... one based on SQUish and
 ml> the other also based on SQUish but with JAM and MSG added in... MAPI and
 ml> SMAPI?? and then there's the original JAMLIB released by joho and crew...

 ml> but the origin based on SQU is why some utils of HPT still show their SQU
 ml> roots (eg: sqpack)... SQUish uses that old DOS file system time format with
 ml> 2sec granularity... i suspect they're using the same routine with JAM
 ml> instead of branching off for the date at the same place they do for MSG
 ml> which we know uses a string format... the JAM one is just a plain unix time
 ml> stamp and needs no manipulation...

That sounds likely... And I don't want to check the source. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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