From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T01:48:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Attributing an old time stamp for a new file.

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:43:52AM +0900, Peter Bailey wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------ File::utime
> >      File.utime(atime, mtime, file_name,...)   =>  integer
> 
> Thanks, Brian! Well, no, "make" is meaningless in DOS or Windows, 
> believe me. But, I did look into the fileutils.rb file and I do indeed 
> see what you point out. I'd never have thought to look into one of these 
> files. Amazing to me. So, I've tried this and it still doesn't work:
> 
> FileUtils.touch("file1", "file2")
> 
> What does "t" stand for above?

Time. (atime and mtime are last accessed time and last modified time,
respectively).