On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:01:26 +0100, Alexander Shopov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have the slightest idea what is the difference between > date_modified and date_changed in the following string? > > #: ../libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas.in.h:1 > msgid "" > "A list of captions below an icon in the icon view and the desktop. " > "The actual number of captions shown depends on the zoom level. " > "Possible values are: \"size\", \"type\", \"date_modified\", " > "\"date_changed\", \"date_accessed\", \"owner\", \"group\", " > "\"permissions\", \"octal_permissions\" and \"mime_type\"."
This is to do with how dates are stored on Linux (and Unix). There are 3 dates stored in the inode of each file system object: Date modified (mtime): Last time the file contents were altered. Date accessed (atime): Last time the file contents were viewed. Date changed (ctime): Last time the inode for the file was changed. The inode contains important meta-information about the file, such as the file permissions, the above time fields, the location of the file on the disk etc. Hope that helps dave _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
