From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2006-11-15T01:39:50+09:00
Subject: Re: What's up with File.ctime?

Hugh Sasse wrote:
> 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

Thanks, you guys. Nope, I'm on Windows. Yes, "dir /t:a" is probably the 
equivalent to ctime, but, again, that's not what I want. I just want the 
file time as it's listed in a garden-variety "dir."

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