summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/source3/lib/time.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'source3/lib/time.c')
-rw-r--r--source3/lib/time.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source3/lib/time.c b/source3/lib/time.c
index 5d7628c9d3..84004a099b 100644
--- a/source3/lib/time.c
+++ b/source3/lib/time.c
@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ struct tm *LocalTime(time_t *t)
Interpret an 8 byte "filetime" structure to a time_t
It's originally in "100ns units since jan 1st 1601"
+ An 8 byte value of 0xffffffffffffffff will be returned as (time_t)0.
+
It appears to be kludge-GMT (at least for file listings). This means
its the GMT you get by taking a localtime and adding the
serverzone. This is NOT the same as GMT in some cases. This routine
@@ -385,6 +387,8 @@ time_t nt_time_to_unix_abs(NTTIME *nt)
/****************************************************************************
Interprets an nt time into a unix time_t.
+ Differs from nt_time_to_unix in that an 8 byte value of 0xffffffffffffffff
+ will be returned as (time_t)-1, whereas nt_time_to_unix returns 0 in this case.
****************************************************************************/
time_t interpret_long_date(char *p)
@@ -392,6 +396,9 @@ time_t interpret_long_date(char *p)
NTTIME nt;
nt.low = IVAL(p,0);
nt.high = IVAL(p,4);
+ if (nt.low == 0xFFFFFFFF && nt.high == 0xFFFFFFFF) {
+ return (time_t)-1;
+ }
return nt_time_to_unix(&nt);
}