Re: Future dates files corrupt the entries file when commited

[Ben Reser <be...@reser.org>]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 12:11:41AM -0000, arividar@tigris.org wrote:
> When I added and commited the file IMG_0189.JPG the "text-time" field in the 
> entries file has corrupt time info. The file didn't have any date assigned to 
> it or was dated into the future - not sure. When I "touched" the file to set 
> its file date to today things started to work again.
> 
> To reproduce. Set a file date into the future on a WinXP. Add the file commit 
> it into a http: web_dav repository on Linux. Then do "svn status" and the 
> following error message is shown:
> 
> C:\webprojects>svn status
> svn: XML parser failed 
> in 'projects/webarividar/implementation/integration/040928_master'
> svn: Date conversion failed
> 
> Then check the entries file and you should see a corrupt text-time entry as 
> shown below:
> 
> <entry
>    committed-rev="25"
>    name="IMG_0189.JPG"
>    text-time="1602-09-21T18:36:25.-291732Z"
>    committed-date="2004-10-09T23:50:31.412360Z"
>    checksum="a8a902c598a7733f8bd96ef9165453fe"
>    last-author="arividar"
>    kind="file"
>    prop-time="2004-10-09T23:48:22.421875Z"
>    revision="25"/>

Someone brought this up before.  It's a flaw in Windows as far as I
concerned becasue it reports the date wrong.  Not sure there is anything
we can do about that.

-- 
Ben Reser <be...@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org

"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken

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