Re: Accurately serializing and deserializing a SysTime in binary format

2020-07-21 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 at 12:21:16 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 7/21/20 7:44 AM, Ecstatic Coder wrote: On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 at 11:01:20 UTC, drug wrote: On 7/20/20 10:04 PM, Ecstatic Coder wrote: I'm currently implementing a small open source backup tool (dub), and therefore I nee

Re: Accurately serializing and deserializing a SysTime in binary format

2020-07-21 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 7/21/20 7:44 AM, Ecstatic Coder wrote: On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 at 11:01:20 UTC, drug wrote: On 7/20/20 10:04 PM, Ecstatic Coder wrote: 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,

Re: Accurately serializing and deserializing a SysTime in binary format

2020-07-21 Thread drug via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 7/21/20 2:44 PM, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Ah thanks for telling me :) The loaded byte array in the union type was indeed the same as the saved one, so I immediately thought it was crashing because of some hidden pointer for timezone or something which was then pointing to garbage at reloadin

Re: Accurately serializing and deserializing a SysTime in binary format

2020-07-21 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 at 11:01:20 UTC, drug wrote: On 7/20/20 10:04 PM, Ecstatic Coder wrote: 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

Re: Accurately serializing and deserializing a SysTime in binary format

2020-07-21 Thread drug via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 7/20/20 10:04 PM, Ecstatic Coder wrote: 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

Re: Accurately serializing and deserializing a SysTime in binary format

2020-07-21 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d-learn
As my question obviously didn't interest any expert, I took advantage of my lunch break to do some more research ;) Maybe I'm wrong, but to my knowledge, there is no function to get the number of hectonanoseconds since January 1, 1970. Fortunately I can get the number of seconds since the sam

Accurately serializing and deserializing a SysTime in binary format

2020-07-20 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d-learn
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 unfortunatel