Re: [Libguestfs] [Hivex][PATCH v2] Report last-modified time of hive root and nodes

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 01:24:05PM -0700, Alex‎ Nelson wrote: > These changes are bringing the hivexml program into a file system > analysis suite that deals with many different file system types, > each with their own timestamp recording quirks, and even some file > formats which have yet more quirks. We think that ISO 8601 is the > best umbrella output format, with an additional XML attribute noting > the time granularity (like FAT's 2-second and 1-day granularities). > That's why we're outputting strings in C, which, yes, feels wrong, > but simplifies parsing outside of the scope of hivexml. We're > dealing with the time presentation proactively. Reading this over again, I think you may be confusing how the hivex API/library returns the data and how hivexml displays the data. The two are completely different things. You can have hivexml displaying the data as an ISO 8601 string (in fact, I would say that is a very good choice). But that does not in any way require that the C API returns a string.

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