Get the timestamp of a file on HP?

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

>VK2COT: do not rely time stamp

Eventually -c option works to find out real time stamp:

#ls -ld /tmp/blah
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 0 Oct 27 2009 /tmp/blah

# ls -lc /tmp/blah
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 0 Sep 13 16:41 /tmp/blah

[Michelle_61]

Thanks everybody, for the very good advice!

My real intention is to create a cache file and refresh it based on a certain timeout value.

Thanks again!

[Dennis Handly]

>Hakki: What do you say VK2COT's information about time_stamp unreliability?

It's correct. But if you want to depend on it, you need to make sure the file isn't writable.
It also may be completely unrelated to what Michelle wants.

>I am totally surprised.

Isn't it obvious? :-)

>Eventually -c option works to find out real time stamp:

There are three timestamps, it depends on what you want. -c provides the inode change time, rather than the content change time.