From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2006-11-15T01:08:12+09:00
Subject: Re: What's up with File.ctime?

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, 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.
        [...]
> > 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

ls -lu  ;# => atime
ls -lc  ;# => ctime 
ls -l   ;# => mtime

ctime means Inode modified, i.e. created, chmod'ed, etc.  See man ls
if you're on unix.  DIR /T:A gives access time according to XP docs.  

        Hugh
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