[Sunhelp] EXACT!!! creation time of files

[mike mangino]

The three times mentioned in the previous message are all you have to work with.

On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 01:35:40PM -0400, Wolfgang Engelien wrote:
> Thank you very much. Unfortunatly this did not
> answer my question (as I meant it). So, let me
> rephrase my question:
> 
> Is there a way to determin the creation time of a file
> in the SECOND range in Solaris/Irix? That means with
> the precesion of ca. one second.
> 
> I want to be able to say for example:
> File X was created in December 6th 1998 14:05:45
> 	or
> file X was created 882988997 seconds after January 1st 1970.
> 
> But thanks anyway,
> Wolfgang
> 
> 
> At 01:46 AM 8/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:17:05PM -0400, Wolfgang Engelien wrote:
> >
> >| is there a way to determin the creation time of a file
> >| in the second range in Solaris/Irix?
> >
> >Each file has a ctime, mtime and atime.
> >
> >mtime = time of last modification of the file
> >atime = time of last access
> >ctime = time that the inode of the file was last altered.
> >
> >Normally the ctime is called the `creation time' and if it really were
> >so, then this would be what you wanted.  But if you ever use `touch'
> >on a file or use the utime() call, you reset the ctime to the current
> >system time so you can't rely on it to be the `creation time'.
> >
> >That being said, you can view the ctime of a file on any Un*x system
> >with a `ls -lc { file name }'.  For more details, `man ls'.
> >
> >-- 
> >Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzy.com
> >
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