[Sunhelp] EXACT!!! creation time of files

[Wolfgang Engelien]

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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