utime with 'long' times on Win32

Hi All,

Recently was surprised by the following behaviour of Perl's utime
*on*windows*:

 c:\> perl -e "$t = 2**32; print scalar localtime $t"
 Sun Feb  7 06:28:16 2106
 c:\> perl -e "open T,'>xyz'; close T; $t = 2**32; utime $t,$t,'xyz' or die qq(... $!)"
 ... Invalid argument at -e line 1.

Specifically times >= 2**31 trigger EINVAL.

I don't see any reason why Perl shouldn't do The Right Thing here since
Windows supports such file times.
    
Now there may be an argument that we should mimic the clib's implementation
of utime()... but then that should also apply to localtime :-)

If there's interst, and no one else volunteers ("Hi Jan!") i'll take a closer look
and try to whip a patch together.


Cheers, alex.

• utime with 'long' times on Win32 by alex.davies
• Re: utime with 'long' times on Win32 by Jan Dubois