[Sunhelp] EXACT!!! creation time of files

[Wolfgang Engelien]

It is very kind of you to say that, but it
would be even more kind to tell me the EXACT
COMMAND, WHICH YOU HAVE TESTED BEFOR. Any ls
command I tried does not give me an EXACT
time as I have mentioned it. Here again,

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.

Thanks again,
Wolfgang

At 05:55 PM 8/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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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