[SAGA-RG] missing(?) method reporting last modification time

[Steve Fisher]

If any of the time functions are needed then we should provide them
all. I presume that they are supported by all known operating systems?
If not this would be a good reason to limit to the universally
supported ones.

2009/6/2 Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net>:
>
> Dear Sylvain,
>
> Quoting [Sylvain Reynaud] (Jun 01 2009):
>>
>> Andre Merzky a écrit :
>> >So, would something like
>> >
>> >  get_atime ()
>> >  get_mtime ()
>> >  get_ctime ()
>> >  get_btime ()
>> >
>> >work for you folx?  I realize that this differs from what
>> >Sylvain's group added to JSAGA... :-/
>> >
>> Dear Andre,
>>
>> I think this is not so different from what we added, it is rather more
>> comprehensive.
>
> Right.
>
>
>> The reasons why we implemented only the "get_mtime" are:
>> * many (most ?) protocols provide only 1 date (last modified).
>> * our users were only lacking the last modification date.
>
> Good reasons IMHO.  If everybody agrees on it, then we might
> indeed want to limit the change to mtime only.  However, I
> really would hate to come back to the topic a year later to
> add one attribute, and another year later for the next one,
> etc ;-)
>
> Lets see what the others think..
>
> Thanks, Andre.
>
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