Re: Wrong date/time in "svn log" output

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:58:46AM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> I don't think this is a Subversion bug, because it doesn't call
> GetTickCount() anywhere at all. I think it is more likely a bug in
> Cygwin's "unix translation" layer. My suspicion is that Subversion
> calls the APR time functions to get the current system time, then APR
> calls the standard unix time functions, and then Cygwin translates the
> unix call into a windows GetTickCount().
>

Just to satify my curiousity, I had a look at the Cygwin sources. You're
exactly right (though it actually uses the Win32 multimedia function
timeGetTime(), which does the same thing). There's even a comment that
says "// FIXME: Not sure how this will handle the 49.71 day wrap around"!

Regards,
Malcolm

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Received on Tue Dec 6 17:43:32 2005