Dir$ LastWriteTime

[Jim Padgett]

Should Dir$ read the type info for a folder?

CreationTime AS QUAD
LastAccessTime AS QUAD
LastWriteTime AS QUAD

I seem to get the same information back for each folder I query.

It works fine for files ....

[Michael Mattias]

Consensus opinion is that the "DIRDATA" structure provided in Win/9 DIR$ is actually a Windows WIN32_FIND_DATA structure. (It's not documented).

Given that, the SDK documentation for the ftLastWriteTime applies:

ftLastWriteTime
A FILETIME structure. For a file, the structure specifies when the file was last written to. For a directory, the structure specifies when the directory was created. If the underlying file system does not support last write time, ftLastWriteTime is zero.