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DOS specifications ("standards") (Developers)

posted by awik, 16.01.2024, 11:28

>
> > stored in the directory entry with the year represented as an unsigned
> seven bit number (0–127), relative to 1980, and thereby unable to
> indicate any dates in the year 2108 and beyond. The API functions defined
> to retrieve these dates officially only support dates up to 31 December
> 2099.
> > This will also affect the ZIP archive file format, as it uses FAT file
> modification timestamps internally.
>
> Not of immediate concern, but are there any solutions in sight here, maybe
> ZIP has one?

Doesn't VFAT implement ctime, mtime, and atime timestamps with second-granularity?

I don't know about .ZIP, as I've never studied it.

-Albert.

Complete thread:

• DOS specifications ("standards") - awik, 18.11.2020, 16:57 (Developers)
  • DOS specifications ("standards") - awik, 18.11.2020, 18:48
  • DOS specifications ("standards") - RayeR, 18.11.2020, 20:07
    • DOS specifications ("standards") - awik, 19.11.2020, 13:32
  • DOS specifications ("standards") - glennmcc, 18.11.2020, 20:22
    • DOS specifications ("standards") - awik, 19.11.2020, 13:44
  • DOS specifications ("standards") - Zyzzle, 19.11.2020, 02:23
    • DOS specifications ("standards") - awik, 19.11.2020, 14:02
      • DOS specifications ("standards") - RayeR, 19.11.2020, 19:11
  • DOS specifications ("standards") - Laaca, 19.11.2020, 11:27
    • DOS specifications ("standards") - awik, 19.11.2020, 15:03
    • DOS specifications ("standards") - RayeR, 20.11.2020, 02:04
  • DOS specifications ("standards") - tkchia, 19.11.2020, 14:12
    • DOS specifications ("standards") - awik, 19.11.2020, 15:11
    • DOS specifications ("standards") - RayeR, 19.11.2020, 19:06
  • DOS specifications ("standards") - ecm, 20.11.2020, 16:08
    • DOS specifications ("standards") - awik, 21.11.2020, 16:43
      • DOS specifications ("standards") - tkchia, 21.11.2020, 17:37
        • DOS specifications ("standards") - awik, 21.11.2020, 18:58
          • DOS specifications ("standards") - tom, 22.11.2020, 14:58
      • DOS specifications ("standards") - marcov, 22.11.2020, 22:35
        • DOS specifications ("standards") - RayeR, 23.11.2020, 05:49
      • DOS specifications ("standards") - 33-bit LBA support - ecm, 23.11.2020, 10:01
    • DOS specifications ("standards") - ecm, 25.12.2020, 21:27
  • Hosting/Sharing - rr, 23.11.2020, 21:19
  • DOS specifications ("standards") - Ro2003, 13.01.2024, 09:06
    • DOS specifications ("standards") - awik, 16.01.2024, 11:28
      • DOS specifications ("standards") - jadoxa, 17.01.2024, 02:15
        • DOS specifications ("standards") - Rugxulo, 17.01.2024, 03:40