Re: [Bug-wget] Query about correcting for DST with Wget

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tim Ruehsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:41:40 +0100
> 
> > If we care about this, we could have a private implementation of
> > utimes in mswindows.c, which would DTRT in the use cases needed by
> > Wget.
> 
> Wget uses utime() if available. This function is not covered by gnulib and it 
> is obsoleted by POSIX 2008.
> 
> Instead we should use utimens which is covered by gnulib and circumvents 
> several issues. Currently, I can see no special Windows code in gnulib - but 
> if the issue persists, it should IMO be fixed in gnulib.
> 
> WDYT ?

I won't hold my breath for this to solve the issue.  At best, gnulib
will probably call utimes in its utimens implementation, which will
reset us back to square one.  At worse, they will ask us to provide
the missing implementation for MS-Windows.

This issue is not solvable without calling win32 APIs directly,
because the MS C runtime function all behave consistently -- and
wrongly -- in this case.