[erlang-questions] File creation times under Windows

[Johnny Billquist]

John Hughes wrote:
> I would have expected that, once a file has been created, then its creation 
> time should remain constant (unless explicitly modified)--wouldn't you? Not 
> so! At least, not under Windows. Under both XP and Vista, the file creation 
> time reported by file:read_file_info changes by an hour when daylight saving 
> time ends (and presumably also when it begins)!
> 
> File system design according to the Principle of Greatest Astonishment, 
> evidently.

I believe that's a basic problem with windows, since it don't actually 
keep time in UTC, but local time, internally.

In short: if you use Windows, that's the way it is. Don't have anything 
to do with Erlang.

	Johnny