Error in docs about "file creation date"

[Wilhelm Sanke]

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com  wrote today:

 >Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
 >
 >> The detailed-files function of Rev appears to be extremely "buggy", and
 >> the Rev team should take a close look both at the function itself and
 >> the corresponding information in the docs.
 >
 >I can't reproduce any problems with it at all. Here is a test I did.
 >Create a stack with a single field and one button. The button script:
 >
 >on mouseUp
 >   answer folder "Choose a folder:"
 >   set the directory to it
 >   put the detailed files into fld 1
 >   repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in in fld 1
 >     get item 4 of line x of fld 1
 >     convert it to short date and time
 >     put it into item 4 of line x of fld 1
 >     get item 5 of line x of fld 1
 >     convert it to short date and time
 >     put it into item 5 of line x of fld 1
 >   end repeat
 >end mouseUp
 >
 >This will give you a list of detailed files with the creation and
 >modification dates converted so they are easier to read.
 >
 >(snip)
 >
 >Then I opened the same stack in WinXP and got identical results. The
 >creation and modification dates on each file matched the ones given in
 >the Properties dialog for each file. A few files -- which had been
 >copied from a Mac volume to Windows -- gave strange dates where the
 >modification date was earlier than the creation date. But when I looked
 >at the Properties for those files in WinXP, Windows listed the same odd
 >dates in its dialogs.
 >
 >This seems to show that that Rev is retrieving the information from the
 >OS, as expected, and that any unusual results are due to the OS rather
 >than to Revolution.
 >
 >Do you get similar results if you run the above script?

Nope, I am sorry.

I do not rule out that the OS data and the detailed files data might 
match under circumstances I cannot define.

The results I get here using your script are exactly the same as with my 
slightly different script (Indeed I had hoped that it could be a script 
issue  - in which case the syntactic recommendations of the docs how to 
convert the items of the detailed files would have been in question)

For the folder I mentioned in my last post - where the WindowsXP OS 
information clearly shows different dates for modification and creation 
- with your script I get the same results as before: Only the 
modification date is shown both in item 4 and item 5 of the detailed files.

For the "M" - modified - and "O" images - not modified - on MacOS I also 
get the same results as before:

Item 4 displays the mentioned phantastic date of "Jan 18, 2038" - which 
is probably the USB-stick transfer date - in item 5  with image "M" the 
"imported" date "May 19" is shown, while the iTunes data show "March 4 " 
as the creation date. For image "O" - the not-modified image - item 4 
shows "Jan 18, 2038" and item 5 "March 4", not using here the "imported" 
date "March 19" of  iTunes.-

Maybe my two main computers are infected with a special "detailed-files 
virus". If this is not the case then I have to repeat my statements that

The detailed-files function of Rev appears to be extremely "buggy", and 
the Rev team should take a close look both at the function itself and 
the corresponding information in the docs.

Best regards,

Wilhelm Sanke
<http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>