CFileStatus m_mtime problems

[User 12497590]

Hy, i am using CFileStatus to get the date and time when the file was last modified. By some files time is one hour earlier or later, but only by some files? Does anybody have a clue why this happens?

cfile.GetStatus(m_filepaths[i], m_status);

Date=m_status.m_mtime.Format( "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M " );

[Lost User]

I would guess "summertime".

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[User 12497590]

Do you have any idea how to fix this?

[Lost User]

Not before you can confirm that it is broken; are the files that lack an hour created during the same period, or is it distributed randomly?

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[Lost User]

The m_mtime.Format method returns a time formatted according to the local timezone, so it may well be one hour out. You should use one of the alternative methods (see CTime Class[^]) to get the absolute time.

[Jochen Arndt]

This can occur when files are stored on FAT file systems. NTFS stores all dates in UTC while FAT uses local times. The local time from FAT file systems is converted when getting the time. But this will return wrong values when the time stamp has been written by a system that uses a different time zone than the one used to read the time stamp. See also File Times (Windows)[^].

[User 12497590]

I have a little bit check files. Files that where modified round in period betwen November and April have time one hour later.

[User 12497590]

I have solved the Problem with this: Retrieving the Last-Write Time (Windows)[^]