[Zope-dev] problems with file caching

[Martijn Pieters]

Friday, December 10, 1999, 1:15:31 AM, Jonothan Farr wrote:
JF> As you can see, the request header says:

JF>     if-modified-since: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 21:11:30 GMT; length=649

JF> and the response header says:

JF>     last-modified: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 21:11:30 GMT

JF> but the DateTime class converts this time to:

JF>     Wed Sep 15 14:11:29 1999

JF> which is off by one second, so it thinks that the file has in fact been
JF> modified.

JF> The workaround I came up with for this is to round off the time value
JF> generated by the DateTime class.

JF>             ms=DateTime(ms).timeTime()
JF>             ms = round(ms, 1)

JF> If I am correct, and this is actually a problem with the DateTime class, I
JF> would like to see it fixed, though.

What platform are you running on? I saw the same rounding problem on
SGI IRIX, but couldn't reproduce it on Linux. As I also saw similar
differences in fp tests on PostgreSQL, I blame it on the OS and
hardware.

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Best regards,
 Martijn Pieters                    mailto:mj@digicool.com