[Pythonmac-SIG] Folder alias, time offset

[Jack Jansen]

> (1) How can one make a folder alias? I know that
>           macostools.mkalias(src, dst)
>      makes a file alias, but it does not work for folders.

I'm surprised, I didn't know it didn't work for folders. If anyone has a patch 
please forward it to me too for inclusion in the source tree.

> (2) I consistently see that there is a mismatch between MacOS
>      filesystem time and the operating system time. To be precise,
>      they mismatch by around 4 years. Does that have something 
>      to do with MacIntosh's definition of epoch?
>      (I believe that it is 1904/1/1, right?) Is this a know bug, or is
>      there a reason behind it all? If this is an intended feature, then
>      is there a standard way of converting time back and forth?
>      (I typically get a filetime by using t=os.stat(filename)[8], it can
>      then be views in formatted ASCII time by using 
>           print time.ctime(t),
>      and I see that the printed time is 4 years younger.)

Aw, grmpf. Metrowerks keeps changing their idea of how to represent date/time, 
and MacPython gets hit by it time and again. There have been three epochs in 
use in the software MacPython uses:
- The Mac epoch (1/1/1904, visible with GetFInfo() and such calls)
- The Metrowerks C library epoch (1/1/1900)
- The CWGUSI epoch.

Apparently I've messed up in the conversion again (or maybe I should simply 
take out my workaround for MW's messup in a previous release). I'll have a 
look.
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