On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:50:02 -0700, loial wrote: > 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?
Most Unix filesystems don't store a "creation" time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list