AddTime Addon

[Hacker]

Hi,
Just starting a new thread to let everyone (who cares ) know, that the official homepage of AddTime has moved from http://thehacker.host.sk/addtime/ to http://www.angelfire.com/sk/thehacker/addtime/ .

And AddTime standalone version is featured on the 25-year Jubileum Issue of the German Chip magazine (11/2003).

Thanks
Roman

[Hacker]

AddTime Addon 1.03 beta is available at http://thehacker.host.sk/myfiles/ (addtime_addon_1_03_beta.exe), I'd be glad if someone might confirm if the 2-second precision limitation is gone under NTFS - ie if you can correctly add / subtract one second from the filetime.

TIA
Roman

[Vansumsen]

AddTime Addon 1.03 beta , ...I'd be glad if someone might confirm if the 2-second precision limitation is gone under NTFS - ie if you can correctly add / subtract one second from the filetime.
...

Tested under Win2K French with version TC 6.02
Add and Substract 1 second works fine unter NTFS and Fat 32...

Also , all works correct when I try it on others and different machines through the net. (Win 98 SE and 2K)
(Not tested with XP)

Cheers

Paul

[Hacker]

Vansumsen,

Add and Substract 1 second works fine unter NTFS and Fat 32...

Thanks, but are you sure about FAT32? FAT doesn't support an odd second count...

Thanks
Roman

[Vansumsen]

Adding 1 is impossible with Fat (even only for seconds) this is not dependant of your addon but of the structure (limitation) of the Fat !

So I correct my text :

Add and Substract 1 second works fine unter NTFS; and Fat : only by even number of seconds ...
When you add 1 second to a "fat" time step is always 2 seconds

So 12:23:14 + 1s = 12:23:16
and 12:23:14 + 1s + 1s + 1s = 12:23:20
but 12:23:14+ 3s = 12:23:18

I'm I wrong ?

Cheers

Paul

[Hacker]

Yes you are right - it is a FAT limitation and as my developer environment uses FAT I couldn't check if my program can correctly add/subtract one second on NTFS.
Thank you.

Is there anyone else willing to confirm? At least two confirmations would be nice...

TIA
Roman

[Hacker]

AddTime Addon 1.03 is out.

Thanks
Roman

[RFNagel]

Hello Hacker,

I stumbled across your addon for Total Commander while Googling for a possible solution to a problem that I've had since day-one with older data CD-ROMs that I've created under Windows 98SE, and then reading/viewing them under my current OS (Windows XP Pro w/ SP3)...

...incorrect file dates and times, usually resulting with all file times of all of the files and directories on the CD being plus 10 hours <arrgghh>. The weird thing is, when the CD is viewed on a Windows 9x (or DOS) PC, the file dates and times were correct.

Also, if I create an ISO of the CD under Windows XP and then view the files and directories inside the ISO using Total Commander, they look fine. But... when *extracting* any of them from the ISO image to my hard drive, the file dates and times are screwed up again (plus 10 hours) <double-aarrgghh>.

Anyhow, when I was going to burn revised copies of some of my CDs, your AddTime utility looked quite handy to correct the file dates and times before burning the newly revised CD(s).

I have Total Commander (been a happy user since back in my WinDoZe 3.x days ), but prefered to use your standalone command line version of AddTime to perform the time/date correction.

Anyways, thanks for this utility... I've been looking for something like this for EONS!

[Hacker]

RFNagel,
Glad it's useful to you.
Not sure about what's wrong with the CD's, perhaps they're in UDF format and it stores the timestamp differently?

Roman

[RFNagel]

Not sure about what's wrong with the CD's, perhaps they're in UDF format and it stores the timestamp differently?

All of them are in ISO-9660 format (and some in Joliet format for WinDoZe 9x long filenames). That file time offset problem has plagued me for ages... ever since I first migrated from W98 to WXP several years back.

What I did notice though was that if the CDs were burned using Nero Burning ROM (using the last version that would actually run under W98), I didn't have the problem.

Most of my CDs on that PC were burned using NTI CD Maker Pro, and *those* were the ones were I see the screwed up file times. The few that I burned using Nero on that PC were all OK.

Anyhow again, a million thanks for AddTime... makes life much easier to sort out the file times when creating new CDs from old(er) material