PB Version-numbers

[Fred Oxenby]

Powerbasic show its version as filedate and filetime.
For Filetime (if it has any meaning) is that really wise?
Filetime is adjusted according to your locale settings.
If PB use Filetime = 5:00 then I see that as 6:00 in Sweden.
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I use Filedate/Filetime myself to maintain my 'versions' and have
just discovered that my application installed on several NT-workstations showed diffrent 'version-numbers' depending on how
the locale was specified during installation, daylight saving and so forth



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Fred
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[Tom Hanlin]

The use of time/date stamps for indicating the version goes back to DOS
days. DOS does not provide any intrinsic version information handling,
and DOS time/date stamps don't take locale into account. It is likely
that future releases will rely more on Windows version resources but,
as these can only attach to executables, the time/date system may well
continue in parallel.


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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff