[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: All,
: 
: My goal is to get element 9 of stat which is mtime.  I am
: getting this with ease, but my end goal is to convert this
: number back into a readable format giving me how old the file
: is.

    Are you sure mtime tracks file age? I was under the impression
that that was not what it did on most operating systems.


: So here is a rough draft formula :  (time in seconds  -  last
: MTime ) = seconds old.
: 
: Convert seconds old to a human readable time stamp using localtime ();
: Any ideas or is there a better way?

    That looks right. Your code is missing a closing quote. You might
commify the result as 1106803146 isn't very human readable.

HTH,

Charles K. Clarkson
-- 
Mobile Homes Specialist
254 968-8328


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