Re: [MiNT] DATE/TIME cookies

[Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > OK, so what if FreeMiNT allocated two word blocks in a global memory and
> > ´mirrored´ the internal datestamp and timestamp variables into those
> > vars in global memory? By mirroring I mean that routines updating date
> > and timestamp would also update the mirrored_global_dateandtimestamp.
> > And of course the ´DATE´ and ´TIME´ cookies would point to the global
> > blocks.
> 
> This would require that MiNT indeed continues to use that time and date
> format
> internally. However my understanding is that this is something that is
> likely
> to change sooner or later.

It has already changed but the global variables "timestamp" and "datestamp"
still get updated once a second and whenever necessary (after calls to
Tsettime and friends).  Since this is relatively little effort it will
most probably remain like this in the future.

Ciao

Guido
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