Re: ctime

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:19:24 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > OpenDOS uses both even and odd seconds however...
> > > What about PC-DOS (the third strain of DOSes) ??
> >
> > This is really hard to do, considering there are only 32 values
> > available for seconds in the unsigned short time field.
>
> Then it _has_ to be a bug in msdos-fs. I'll see what it
> looks like when I reboot into dos...
>
> here's my listing of an 'ls -l /dosc'
> (somewhat snipped, but still recognizably OpenDOS)
> --------------------------
> total 232
> drwx------ 2 riel root 8192 Nov 3 18:24 4x4/
> -rwx------ 1 riel root 1138 Dec 2 20:39 4x4.ini*
> -rwx------ 1 riel root 3241 Sep 12 1995 4x4oem.ini*
> drwx------ 2 riel root 8192 Oct 28 11:41 advscsi/
> -rwx------ 1 riel root 149 Nov 24 22:14 autoexec.bat*
> -rwx------ 1 riel root 392 Nov 26 15:40 config.sys*
> drwx------ 2 riel root 8192 Oct 28 11:41 hocdrom/
> -r-x------ 1 riel root 27880 Feb 27 1997 ibmbio.com*
> -r-x------ 1 riel root 30081 Feb 27 1997 ibmdos.com*
> drwx------ 2 riel root 8192 Oct 28 11:41 ndos/
> -rwx------ 1 riel root 446 Nov 26 15:41 nstart.bat*
> drwx------ 3 riel root 8192 Oct 28 11:44 opendos/
> -------------------------
>
> What d'ya say?
>

Well I'd say you are only showing minutes. You need to use
`ls -l --full-time` to get the seconds. Then you will see only
even seconds.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
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