fs.utimes return errors on Windows

[simon-tannai]

Hi !

I'm using fs.utimes in node script on Ubuntu, all work fine.
But when I'm launching this script on Windows, I get an error:

{ [Error: EINVAL: invalid argument, utime 'C:\Users\sit\Documents\_TRAVAUX\app\client_websocket_webdav\files\Corporate\issue3584.pdf']
  errno: -4071,
  code: 'EINVAL',
  syscall: 'utime',
  path: 'C:\\Users\\sit\\Documents\\_TRAVAUX\\app\\client_websocket_webdav\\files\\Corporate\\issue3584.pdf' }

The small script:

  fs.utimes(fullPathOfFile, currentUnixTimestamp, modifiedUnixTimestamp, function(err){
    if( err ) {
      console.log(err);
    }
  });

Have you any solution ?

• Version: v5.1.0
• Platform: Windows 7 64 bits

[bnoordhuis]

Can you post a complete test case? It's unclear from your example what e.g. currentUnixTimestamp contains.

[simon-tannai]

After several tests, I have found the solution:
atime and mtime parameters must be instances of Date().

So, the final code:

// Get current date
var currentDate = new Date();

var modifiedDate = new Date(modifiedUnixTimestamp * 1000);

var fullPathOfFile = "C:/path/to/file.txt";

// File, created date, modified date
fs.utimes(fullPathOfFile, currentDate, modifiedDate, function(err){
  if( err ) {
    console.log(err);
  }
});