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Is Foxpro using the modification date on DBF files??
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08/08/1998 09:29:38
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00124706
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>I think they're stored in the directory entry the FAT entry points to. AFAIR the structure of a directory entry contained date and time, packed in two bytes each (so only seven bits were used for the year, with offset on 1980 and they'll have a problem after 2107, and only five bits for the seconds, so all files report even number of seconds).

Hi Dragan,

I don't believe this is the case in 32 bit windows. Each file has three FILETIME structures (Creation, Modification, and Last Access) associated with it. This structure is made up of 2 DWORDS, for a total of 8 bytes for each of the time stamps. Internally, Windows converts these to a SYSTEMTIME structure for use in display. Still, I believe it's part of the directory entry.
George

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