JDK 9 doc-api-only RFR of 6791812: (file spec) Incompatible File.lastModified() and setLastModified() for negative time

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hi Roger,

On May 19, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at Oracle.com> wrote:

> That looks ok.

Thanks.

> The ambiguity (of zero) can't easily be resolved, but I would be inclined,
> if the file exists and was created exactly at the epoch to bump the create time by 1.

At least that would not be an incompatible change unlike throwing a FileNotFoundException. I doubt a lot of files with the exact epoch timestamp are encountered much at all anyway. In any case either of those solutions would be for JDK 10.

Brian