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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:31:35 +0200 (IST)
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> > There's nothing the user can do about that; in fact, users do not expect 
> > that to work on DOS/Windows.  It's normal behavior, and normal behavior 
> > should not trigger warnings.
> 
> But actually it *DOES* work with Windows 2000 and Windows XP - directories
> have the correct dates.  (This is a byproduct of Andrew's patch).

In my testing on one W2K system, it didn't work reliably--or not at all, 
I forget which.  It definitely doesn't work on W98SE.

> I don't think we should change the current warning suppression - but
> it is reasonable to expect some things to work, and they do if you get
> a more reasonable operating system :-)

Until the lion's share of the users use W2K/XP, we should keep 
suppressing the warning, IMHO.