Rockbox

Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by combthins - 2003-08-13
Last edited by bagder - 2003-12-05

New files created on Player (not Recorder or FM), where
there is no RTC, are created with an illegal write date.
New files are created with modified, created, and
accessed dates set to zero. This is not a valid date as
the day and month fields are 1 based. FAT permits the
create date and the last accessed date to be zero,
indicating that they are not supported, but requires that
write date and time must be supported.

Also, Player does not update the modified date when file
is modified.

Symptoms are that some disk synchronisation software
cannot properly synchronise files between PC and Player
(and may fail leaving files partly synchronised if not very
robust).

I suggest that on file creation, Player sets dates to a
known date (e.g. date of firmware build - similar to how
version is set in makefiles, but 1 Jan 1980 would be a
simpler option). On file modification the date/time
should be changed from current value. An increment of
a little over an hour would be good (e.g. 1hr 10mins) as
some synchronisation software deliberately ignores small
changes in file times.