From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-02T05:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: utime: still with bug?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Friedrich [mailto:aaa.a99@dfgh.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:49 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: utime: still with bug?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> with ruby 1.8.4 on Windows XP, there seems still to be an error of 1 
> hour when assigning mtime to a file by using utime.
> 
> Condition: Assigning a daylight saving time while actual time is not 
> daylight saving time.
> 
> The same seems to be OK on Windows 98SE.
> 
> I tested it as described in:
> <longLine> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/fe4a0
> 342986ebd71
> </longLine>
> 
> 
> Is there a fix or work-around?

I think the bug is actually in Window's utime() implementation, based on
what I've read from this Perl module's description:

http://search.cpan.org/~shay/Win32-UTCFileTime-1.45/lib/Win32/UTCFileTim
e.pm

Regards,

Dan