The African Chief wrote:
I was not talking about the date/time format at all. I was talking about the actual values that are displayed. I just ran the program again, and this is the output (DJGPP, running under Windows NT v4.0):
"327680.786432.130875392 851968:2490368:2424832"
That is what I mean by "unintelligible". I don't know how to translate these values into something that means something to human beings.
Ah, OK, that's something different -- namely a bug... :-(
Of course, there should be no need for any translation, as the values in the time stamp should be the actual time -- and that's what they are on my Linux box.
Perhaps it's the same bug that was reported about test\extended\time.pas in 34396148.5C71@ujf-grenoble.fr, but I'll record this, too. Thanks for the bug report... :-|
I'll take a look into the RTS and see if I can find something wrong. However, since I don't see the bug I'm not sure if I can find the problem...
Frank Heckenbach wrote: [...]
"327680.786432.130875392 851968:2490368:2424832"
That is what I mean by "unintelligible". I don't know how to translate these values into something that means something to human beings.
Ah, OK, that's something different -- namely a bug... :-(
Of course, there should be no need for any translation, as the values in the time stamp should be the actual time -- and that's what they are on my Linux box.
I thought it was some sort of encoded thing that could be decoded by a call to another function. I have since discovered, like you said, that it is a bug. But it seems that the bug exists only in the DJGPP port. When I compiled the program with the CYGWIN32 compiler, the output was correct.
Best regards, The Chief -------- Dr. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Email: laa12@keele.ac.uk Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/African_Chief/ Author of: Chief's Installer Pro 4.01 for Win16 and Win32: http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/install/chief401.zip
Perhaps it's the same bug that was reported about test\extended\time.pas in 34396148.5C71@ujf-grenoble.fr, but I'll record this, too. Thanks for the bug report... :-|
No it is different. I have checked that this old bug is still there, while the example of the Chief works fine on my machine. (All is made in plain DOS/ DJGPP v2.1, the old bug did not appear under bash shell in the same machine)
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