Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!kullmar!pkmab!ske
From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Zoo unpacking wrong times
Keywords: zoo time archives
Message-ID: <572@pkmab.se>
Date: 17 Jan 89 22:22:35 GMT
Organization: Peridot Konsult i Mellansverige AB, Oerebro, Sweden
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Now having entered this new year 1989, I have encountered something
that I think may be a bug in the Zoo archiver. When I unpack Zoo-archives
containing files dated 1989, the unpacked files get times that are 1
day before the times of the original files. The times shown by "zoo v",
though, are correct. This applies to any date in 1989, and indeed to
every year that follows a leap-year (1993, 1997...), according to the
testing I have done.

I discovered this when I unpacked the recently posted VirusX 3.1,
being a little bit extra precautius. I'm using Amigazoo 2.00 on an
A2000, but zoo 1.42 behaved exactly the same when I tested it on a
single file.

On my UNIX-system I have Zoo 2.01, wich also seems to get the times
on unpacked files wrong, but I have not found any consistent pattern
as to by how much.

Have I overlooked something, or is this a genuine bug? Can it be fixed?

Another thing I stumbled on at the same time, is that LIST displayes
certain dates wrong. 31-dec-88 becomes 04--88, 30-dec-88 => 03--88,
29-dec-88 => 02--88 and 28-dec-88 => 01--88. From there on, correct
dates are displayed. This too appears to be connected to the leapyers.
1987 and 1989 display correctly, but 1992 becomes like 1988. I use
"ls" instead.
-- 
Kristoffer Eriksson, Peridot Konsult AB, Hagagatan 6, S-703 40 Oerebro, Sweden
Phone: +46 19-13 03 60   !  e-mail: ske@pkmab.se
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