From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-08-17T04:04:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I get the creation date of a file?

Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
>> At Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:53:39 +0900,
>> Jeremy Tregunna wrote in [ruby-talk:208696]:
>> > Note the ctime. You can fetch this programmatically to.
>>
>> Isn't it the change time?
>>
>> It is platform specific indeed.  Windows calls the creation
>> time as ctime.
>
> atime   - last access
> mtime  - modified
> ctime   - created
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Rimantas
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> http://rimantas.com/
>

Ruby docs say:

"Returns the change time for the named file (the time at which directory 
information about the file was changed, not the file itself)."

-Justin