[vtk-developers] MTime Olympics

[Bill Lorensen]

Folks,

We have two topics that fix the Windows mtime overflow issue for
Windows. This seems like a critical issue for Windows apps that run
for a long time (e.g. surgical applications).

Topic 1:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/1724
Files changed: 376

Topic 2:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/1790
Files changed: 471

The major difference is that topic 1 defines MTime as an unsigned long
and topic 2 introduces a new type vtkTypeMTime.

Topic 2 could be easily changed to use unsigned long for the mtime.

Please take some time to review these topics. I suspect that some
combination of the two will help solve the problem.

Bill