Re: File Date and Time stamp after FileStream.Write(), C#

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the information. I found the thread that you mentioned.

One thing that has changed on my setup is that up to now, I have been
running app tests on my Dell Axim Pocket PC device, with the app installed
in the device memory. I have recently been testing my app on my Pocket PC
phone device where the app has been installed onto a memory card.

It has been the memory card installation that has been the change and is
where I noticed the time stamp differences. From the information on the
other thread, it just might be that creating a new file on a memory card
uses UT time by that particular file store driver but doing the same thing
in device memory uses local time.

If we have to depend on memory card drivers for time stamps then it might
very well be that some memory card file store drivers use UT time while
others use local time. I have not tested this out yet but if this is the
case then what an inconsistency!

Fortunately, the time stamp issue is not critical for my application but
something that I just noticed. I do not know how other apps might cope if
they were time stamp dependent and were deployed to consumers that where
there are different types of memory cards.

Regards,
Neville Lang




"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT
com> wrote in message news:eaD$B%237mHHA.4132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It means that what time gets put on the file depends on what filesystem
the file is being stored to. It might be different on a storage card and
in the object store, for example. I seem to remember some traffic about
this in a thread in another group. You might use GoogleGroups advanced
groups search to search all of microsoft.public.windowsce.* for something
about file time stamps being UTC or not...

Paul T.

"Neville Lang" <neville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Chris,

Thank you for that information. Does that mean that whenever a new file
is created, it always get stamped with the UT time stamp? I felt sure
that newly created files had the time stamp of the local time.

If a new file always gets stamped with UT time, what do I need to do in
CF (or P/Invoke) to change the time to local time when new files are
created?

Sorry for these questions but something must have changed recently. I do
not remember having this problem before. This app has been around for
over 3 years and I feel sure time stamps were OK previously.

Regards,
Neville Lang



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"<ctacke/>" <ctacke[at]opennetcf[dot]com> wrote in message
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The time stamp is handled by the OS's File System Driver, so the CF has
nothing to do with how it gets stamped.


--

Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF Consulting
Managed Code in an Embedded World
www.OpenNETCF.com


"Neville Lang" <neville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have just noticed in my CF app on a Pocket PC (PPC) that when I
create a new file and write some bytes to it on the PPC using
FileStream's FileMode.CreateNew (and Create), FileAccess.Write, the
date and time stamp displayed in the Modified column in Windows
Explorer on the desktop, accessing the Mobile Device, suggests that the
Modified time is set for UT and not my local time. I have just noticed
this and so do not know whether it has occurred in the past.

I automatically thought that the date and time stamp would use the
PPC's current date and time (I seem to remember that it did so in the
past) but evidently not.

Any ideas?

My app is currently using CFv1 on VS2005. I will be changing it to CFv2
soon.


Regards,
Neville Lang










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