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

[Zac Brown]

Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yep, both types of time values should be mapped to our pdf_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.
>
> Could you specify which are the functions needed? The time module is the
> right place to put them.


We'll need something that will take the two DWORDS that windows uses (a high and 
a low) and return a pdf_time_t.

For the UNIX time, is time_t equivalent to pdf_time_t? If so, then nothing is 
needed there, but if they're not then we need something that'll take a time_t 
and return a pdf_time_t.

-Zac