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Number   :  277
Date     :  2001-06-22
Author   :  Joseph Maddison
Subject  :  Re: granular time
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What if you were willing to "truncate" the file times on 
your UNIX and NTFS system to make the file times exactly
match when the files were copied to a FAT volume? Then an
exact match on time should be possible. It would be a sort
of "preparatory truncation".

Joseph Maddison
Minneapolis, MN

>The granularity truncation takes place when a file is
>copied from a finer-time volume to coarser-time volume
>e.g., NTFS --> FAT or UNIX --> FAT). And the trouble
>is that some of the conversions are not necessarily to
>discard the fractional value (as we programmers consider



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