[Patches] Re: New module zipfile.py

[James C. Ahlstrom]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> I discovered another problem.  I get all sorts of weird dates in the
> future (e.g. 2005).  When I list the same zipfile with zipinfo I get
> kosher dates (e.g. 1996).  The rest of the date and time are also
> nonsense; could it be that you're not recognizing certain header
> format variations?  The zip2date() function seems simple enough...

Try the z.printdir() method.  It shows the correct dates.
 
> I've placed a sample file that exhibits this behavior on
> ftp.python.org in pub/tmp/kiczales.zip.
> For this file, zipinfo says:
> 
>   Archive:  kiczales.zip   361208 bytes   1 file
>   -rw-a--     2.0 fat 1698308 t- defN  9-Sep-96 13:01 tutorial2.ps
>   1 file, 1698308 bytes uncompressed, 361086 bytes compressed:  78.7%
> 
> Your code finds a date field (TOC tuple item 4) of 0x6820 which
> decodes to 2032/1/0.

TOC tuple item 4 is the time, 5 is the date.  This is the
order of the fields in the file.

JimA