--On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:35 PM -0700 "Wolf, Glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aw, be nice. Some people _have_ to use those windows thingies... Poor souls. ;-) > Check "dir /?" -- specifically, "dir /ta" will do what you want. It would *appear* that there are a number of ways to see a file's last access time in Windows. I can even use the 'ls -lu' option given for Linux because I have the Cygwin tools installed on my Windows box and I use a bash window for command line stuff (it's getting way too hard to mentally shift between Linux and Windows these days). However, I don't think there's really a way to check it *accurately* in Windows. I'm noticing that as soon as I go to a file to see it's last access time, the last access time displayed is the moment that I "touch" the file to view it's last access time. IOW, the last access time I'm seeing is the time that *I* check the file's properties for the last access time. I've tried this from the Windows file properties dialog, using the 'dir /ta' suggested above, and using 'ls -lu' at a bash prompt. The result is always the same -- when I compare the displayed last access time to the current system time, or even my watch, the two are identical. It seems that all of these methods modify the last access time *as you are using them*, so that the last access time is the current time. I don't think it's possible in Windows to see the access time for a person who accessed a file before the person who is looking for that same information from the file's properties. -- Su If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand. :-)
