On Aug 19, 2013, at 7:27 PM, beginners-digest-h...@perl.org wrote:
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> beginners Digest 20 Aug 2013 00:27:53 - Issue 4569
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> Topics (messages 123372 through 123374):
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> Re: Fetching File Creation Date
> 123372 by: John Aten
> 123373 by: Shawn H Core
On Aug 16, 2013, at 2:25 PM, John Aten wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on a script to rename files after a formula (discussed here:
> http://www.drbunsen.org/naming-and-searching-files-part-1/ ) . The formula
> calls for an ID string that is constructed from the date and time the file is
>
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 08:57:14 -0500
John Aten wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I was taking 'creation time' as the time of the
> first save. Does that matter?
In UNIX et al., there is no such thing. There are 3 times stored in
most file systems (FS) under UNIX.
atime -- access time, the time of th
From: Lawrence Statton
Date: August 16, 2013 6:09:15 PM CDT
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: Fetching File Creation Date
On 08/16/2013 04:25 PM, John Aten wrote:
> Does anyone know if this is possible? Or should I just accept the
> fact that all dates before 8/2013 are suspect?
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On 08/16/2013 04:25 PM, John Aten wrote:
> Hi all,
>
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> Does anyone know if this is possible? Or should I just accept the
> fact that all dates before 8/2013 are suspect?
>
There is no datum that is closely correlated to the "file creation" time.
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Hi all,
I am working on a script to rename files after a formula (discussed here:
http://www.drbunsen.org/naming-and-searching-files-part-1/ ) . The formula
calls for an ID string that is constructed from the date and time the file is
created, of the format YYYMMDD_HHMMSS. The closest approxima
