Re: Help with date and Time

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From: Joan Colley
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 00:00

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John Savage <koala@sydney.dialix.com.au> wrote:
>djr@mphd1.novell.ac.uk (Dominic Robinson) writes:
>>How do I read the creation time of a number of .txt files into another
>>file to the NEAREST SECOND.  /date only gives to the nearest minute??
>
>Get one of the Un*x-style list utilities from SimTel or Garbo. "ls" is
>analogous to the MSDOS "DIR" command, but ls -l gives time of creation
>to the nearest second. You'll probably find any of these should do ...
>
<snip>
>John Savage               koala@sydney.dialix.com.au


John, 

I think that may be the last modified time.  Is the create time held for 
DOS?  It certainly is NOT held for Unix!  In the stat(1) struct for unix 
the three dates held are 

mtime - last modification time (content of file)
atime - last access time (such things as backup)
ctime - last change time (things like name change, symbolic links etc)

I rather suspect DOS is less sophisticated than Unix.  If Dominic really 
wants the create time he is probably out of luck.


Joan.

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Subject: Re: Help with date and Time
Date: 1995/11/23
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