Re: [pdf-devel] Some thoughts on the time module...

[Zac Brown]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Zac.
>
>    As I'm working through the filesystem disk implementation, I've come across a 
>    need to nicely read in Win32 and UNIX time formats and generate a pdf_time_t 
>    format.
>
>    Unfortunately that functionality doesn't exist in the time module.
>
> What data types are these? timeval structures?

I'm working on getting item properties, one of which is creation/modification 
times. Win32's time value is two DWORDS (high value and low value) and the UNIX 
time is obviously time_t.

They're not equivalent in structure etc. so I think instead of messily doing the 
conversion inside the function I'm working on, we probably should develop some 
sort of functions to do these things for us.

One thought is to add a "misc" class of functions that does things primarily 
related to cross-platformness.

Just some thoughts, either way I think we need a function to do this, whether 
its in the time module or some sort of cross-platform module.

-Zac