Re: Help with date and Time

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From: Raj Rijhwani
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <DIHvy2.KH2@online.tmx.com.au> joan_c@adc.com.au "Joan Colley" writes:

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

You are quite correct.  The only time/date construct recorded in an MS-DOS 
directory entry is the modification t&d.  What's more, it's only accurate 
to 2 second intervals, due to the format of the stored time and date in 
16 bits.
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From: Raj Rijhwani <gdr@courtfld.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Help with date and Time
Date: 1995/11/23
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