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MIDL Compiler generates wrong year
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RDan
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Using the MIDL compiler with IDL statements to generate a .TLB file, the compiler inserts a text line into the .TLB such as: Created by MIDL version 8.01.0628 at Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 2038. The year should be the year the .TLB was created (e.g., 2024), NOT 2038!
In researching the internet, there are discussions about year issues depending on how software (such as MIDL) store and represent dates/times internally.
I assume Microsoft is already aware of this and I just haven't found a discussion thread about it somewhere.
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Darran Rowe 1,046 Reputation points2024-11-11T19:10:21.0833333+00:00 Is this reproducable using the latest version of the Windows SDK?
If you don't want to install this, you can grab the Window SDK Build Tools or the Windows SDK CPP NuGet package, extract them (they are renamed .zip files) and then try midl from there.
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RLWA32 45,706 Reputation points2024-11-12T10:26:56.32+00:00 @Darran Rowe The midl compiler from the Windows 8.1 SDK generated type libraries containing comments containing the correct date/time the tlb was created.
Type libraries created by the Windows 11 SDK ( 10.0.26100) midl compiler as well as those from earlier Windows 10 SDKs contained an erroneous date/time in the comments.
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