Hi,

On 2016-12-22 15:33:46, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Uneven seconds test":

 WV>> * Originally in FIDOTEST
 WV>> * Crossposted in FIDOSOFT.HUSKY

 ml> i've included the other area, too...

I didn't, anymore. ;)

 ml> what i recall is that some software uses the DOS time stamp that the
 ml> file system uses... that time stamp has 2 second resolution... DOS
 ml> FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 time stamps are packed 16-bit values... only
 ml> bits 0 to 4 are used to count the seconds. you can't count to 59 with
 ml> only 5 bits unless you cut the resolution in half... thus you get 2
 ml> second resolution...

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

Bye, Wilfred.


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