Re: [cobalt-users] How To Get Account Setup Date ?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gordon wrote:

> > the "-l" option does not show the creation date of a file or directory.
> > There does not seem to be a command that shows the creation date/time of
> > a file/directory <frown>.
> 
> sure there is, ls -l --time=ctime
> 
> unfortunatly the creation time on a directory is the time something in the
> directory was last created, but it works for plain files

In real life it often seems to show the modification time.  My guess is
that most programs (I know for a fact that Majordomo does this) create a
new file and write the old one into it, to do modifications.

Jeff
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