From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2006-11-14T23:13:35+09:00
Subject: Re: What's up with File.ctime?

Jan Svitok wrote:
> On 11/14/06, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I need to notate the date/time attributes of files. I'm using File.ctime
>> and trimming it back to show just day, date, and time.
>>
>> filetime = File.ctime(txtfile)
>> filetime = filetime.to_s.gsub!(/ -.*$/, "")
>>
>> But, I've noticed that files that list in the directories as being dated
>> November 8 are showing via ctime as November 13 files. What's up?
> 
> Perhaps dir/ls shows mtime? Try checking mtime/ctime/atime to see
> which is the right one.
> To display ctime on windows, try dir /T:C  on unix ls -l --time=ctime

Thanks, Jan. Actually, I figured it out for myself. Looking deeper into 
it, I found File.stat.mtime, and that's I'm using now, and it works. 
.ctime, I guess, stands for "change time," so, it doesn't actually state 
the timestamp of the file as it is. Thanks again.

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