I'm currently implementing a small open source backup tool (dub),
and therefore I need to accurately store the file modification
SysTime in binary format, so that I can later load this SysTime
from the snapshot file to compare it with the current file
modification SysTime.
Having unfortunately not understood how to do this from the
SysTime documentation, in despair, I've tried to directly
serialize the 16 bytes of the SysTime value. This worked fine
until I call the ".toISOString()" on the deserialized SysTime,
which inevitably crashes the executable ;)
Anyway, that's not really want I intended to do, as in practice a
"ulong" already has enough resolution for that purpose.
So sorry for my ignorance, but I would definitely need some help
on how to :
- convert a file modification SysTime to a serializable number,
for instance the number of hectonanoseconds since 1/1/1970 in UTC;
- convert that number back into a SysTime that I can compare to
the modification SysTime of the same file.
Eric
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