Am 06.06.2012 14:50, schrieb loial: > I have a requirement to test the creation time of a file with the > current time and raise a message if the file is more than 15 minutes > old. > > Platform is Unix. > > I have looked at using os.path.getctime for the file creation time and > time.time() for the current time, but is this the best approach?
Lots of people are confused by ctime because they think 'c' stands for change. That's wrong. st_ctime is status change time. The ctime is updated when you change (for example) owner or group of a file, create a hard link etc. POSIX has no concept of creation time stamp. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
