Re: os.time epoch on Windows

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Vaughan McAlley wrote:
> Thanks for the help. It's nice to know I can use the Lua timestamps
> and they won't be translating as 1639 on Windows clients. The closest
> thing to the Unix time-stamp on Windows seems to be FileTime, a 64-bit
> integer counting 100-nanosecond intervals from 1601, which wouldn't
> work with Lua numbers.

When you want to view a FileTime as a sane local time, you'd have 
to make another two calls to FileTimeToLocalFileTime and 
FileTimeToSystemTime, the result of the latter can then be loaded 
into a Lua table. IIRC, in Cygwin, they subtract a FileTime by a 
big number to get to the Unix epoch, then scale accordingly. In 
most cases it is easier to use the C library, but sometimes it is 
necessary to write your own file system layer, e.g. to use Unicode 
filenames in Win32.

> > Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 1970
> [snip]

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Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia