Sean DiZazzo wrote:
On Feb 19, 10:06 am, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
Brandon wrote:
Hi everyone,
Does copying or moving a file affect the return value of
os.path.getmtime(path)?
The modification time of a copied file should be the same as the
original.
The creation time of a copied file will be the time at which it was
copied, so that can result in the paradoxical state of a file having
been modified _before_ it was created! :-)
ctime does not stand for creation time. I went through this a couple
of months ago. It's updated whenever the inode is updated, so
changing permissions, among other things will update it.
It blew me away when I finally found this out.
On Windows ctime doesn't change when the file permissions are changed.
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