Godfrey DiGiorgi mused: > > On Mar 17, 2005, at 11:06 AM, John Francis wrote: > > > If they choose to interpret it literally, then it should be the date > > that would correspond to day zero in the DOS epoch. But it isn't. > > Instead, we get the date that corresponds to day zero (or day -1?) > > in the Mac epoch. > > I disagree that that's an error. Mac OS users are used to the OS > showing the proper garbage date on zero values. Is the camera a Windows > device? No. Who knows what its "epoch" is?
It's defined. It's in the FAT specs. It's really not difficult. > It's stupid to put a junk value in a created date field and to make > filling the field optional in the file system. That's the real bug. And > I won't change that opinion. Fine. But's it's not a "junk" value - that's your interpretation. Continue shouting "Mac is perfect - the rest of the world is wrong" for as long as you like.
