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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 27 Feb 1994 12:06:50 MST
  2. Date: 27 Feb 94 14:29:48 GMT
  3. From: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nigel.msen.com!caen!malgudi.oar.net!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Brandon S. Allbery)
  4. Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH
  5. Subject: Re: file dates
  6. Message-Id: <1994Feb27.142948.431@kf8nh.wariat.org>
  7. References: <1994Feb23.121210.9747@hemlock.cray.com>, <5a-oml5.mengarini@delphi.com>
  8. Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
  9. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  10. Status: R
  11. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  12.  
  13. In article <5a-oml5.mengarini@delphi.com>, Will Mengarini <mengarini@delphi.com> says:
  14. +---------------
  15. | Can anybody name an Icon implementation for a system where
  16. | files are created & stored in a way that doesn't keep track
  17. | of both creation date & time, & last-change date & time?
  18. +------------->8
  19.  
  20. Unix doesn't keep *creation* time, it keeps *last inode change* time.  This
  21. catches changes made by e.g. chmod(), as opposed to writes.
  22.  
  23. ++Brandon
  24. -- 
  25. Brandon S. Allbery       kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org         bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
  26. "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
  27. of careful development."  ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
  28.