[Sunhelp] EXACT!!! creation time of files

[David Eisner]

Wolfgang,

It seems to me that they are saying:

There is no such command!  It is not possible to determine the
creation time of a file in the Second range on Solaris/Irix.
It can't be done.  

The first message said, in effect, you can get close to what
you want, but not exaclty. 

I don't think they can be any more explicit.

-David


On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Wolfgang Engelien wrote:

> 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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