Connecting to a web server would be the optimal solution but as the product is for a number of schools including central Australia, this may not be feasable in terms of cost or bandwidth with the proposed solution running on a number of computers. There are a number of schools still on dial-up where access to the server would not always be accessible.
Thanks. Christian Biesinger wrote: > James Newell wrote: > > Investigating your described method, it seems jar/zip files do not > > contain individual file's added/created, modified etc dates? For a > > chrome file located in a jar file, nsIZipEntry would have to be used, > > however the zip entry interface has no date properties or methods. > > ZIP files do store the last-modified date: > > $ unzip -l test.zip > Archive: test.zip > Length Date Time Name > -------- ---- ---- ---- > 0 10-25-06 23:04 testfile > -------- ------- > 0 1 file > > I don't know if they store any other times than last-modified. And it's > possible that you can't access that information via Mozilla APIs. > > If all you want to do is verify that the user didn't set his clock back, > wouldn't it be easier to ask a web server for the current date/time? > > -- > All the world's a stage, > And all the men and women merely players: > They have their exits and their entrances; > And one man in his time plays many parts, [...] --W. Shakespeare _______________________________________________ dev-tech-network mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network
