Date modified of zero

1

Can the date modified of a file be zero? Or is the start of the epoch represented as 1? Is this a standard or a design decision?

The relevant code in JUCE would be this section which fails when modificationTime is 0:

bool File::setFileTimesInternal (int64 modificationTime, int64 accessTime, int64 /*creationTime*/) const
{
    ...
    if ((modificationTime != 0 || accessTime != 0) && juce_stat (fullPath, info))
    {
        ... set the time ...
    }
    return false;
}

Thanks for any insight on this :slight_smile:

2

It could happen because this metadata depends on the filesystem.

3

That makes sense, thank you.