[TUHS] Command line options and complexity

Michael Kjörling michael at kjorling.se
Sun Mar 8 19:51:19 AEST 2020


On 8 Mar 2020 16:26 +1100, from grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey):
> FAT timestamps have a granularity of 1 second,

Not quite.

Last modified time is recorded to within two seconds (FAT squeezes the
seconds into a 5-bit field, which allows packing a time into two bytes).

Other times are recorded with different granularity, sometimes
depending on the OS/version used to make the change to the file
system.

And of course FAT has no concept of time zones; everything is local
time, all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_the_FAT_file_system#Directory_entry
has some of the gory details.

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