utime(LIST)

     utime LIST
             Changes the access and modification  times  on  each
             file  of a list of files.  The first two elements of
             the list must be the NUMERICAL access and  modifica-
             tion  times,  in that order.  (On MS-DOS, the access
             time field is ignored.)  Returns the number of files
             successfully  changed.   The inode modification time
             of each file is set to the current time.  Example of
             a "touch" command:

                  #!/usr/bin/perl
                  $now = time;
                  utime $now, $now, @ARGV;