Error in docs about "file creation date"

[J. Landman Gay]

Martin Baxter wrote:


> The dates are OK, although the result does deviate from what the docs 
> tell you to expect in that items 3 and 11 (unsupported on windows) are 
> supposed to therefore contain zero, according to the docs, in the same 
> way as items 7,8,9. But are in fact empty. Unlikely to cause any real 
> trouble I would think, but you never know.

Thanks for running the check, it's been an interesting thread. When I 
was reseraching it in bugzilla I saw there's a bug report about the lack 
of zeros on unsupported Windows items (bug #606.) It's marked as "minor" 
but you could add comments to it if you think it's important. A 
workaround for now is to have scripts check for "> 0" rather than zero 
itself. That way both zero and empty would evaluate the same way.

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