in reply to Reset the time after a readdir

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reset the time? Is "the time" a variable of some sort? What is the name of this variable?

Have you tried writing a program that loops, prints "the times", then every once in a while makes a file "newer", so that you can see how/if the time is changed?

I think you'll be better off to use time and stat and avoid reset

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Re^2: Reset the time after a readdir
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 21, 2014 at 23:44 UTC

    So maybe

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    Or 

    #!/usr/local/bin/perl --
## theTimeDifferCopier.pl
## 2014-10-21-16:50:47
## 
## 
## 
## 
## 
## perltidy -olq  -csc -csci=3 -cscl="sub : BEGIN END " -otr -opr -ce 
+-nibc -i=4 -pt=0   "-nsak=*"
## perltidy -olq  -csc -csci=10 -cscl="sub : BEGIN END if " -otr -opr 
+-ce -nibc -i=4 -pt=0   "-nsak=*"
## perltidy -olq  -csc -csci=10 -cscl="sub : BEGIN END if while " -otr
+ -opr -ce -nibc -i=4 -pt=0   "-nsak=*"
#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use Path::Tiny qw/ path /;

Main( @ARGV );
exit( 0 );

sub Main {
    my $basetime = $^T;
    my $lasttime = $basetime;
    while( 1 ) {
        my @files = path( $dir )->children( qr/$filterPattern/ );
        for my $file ( @files ) {
            my $mtime       = $file->stat->mtime;
            my $diffSeconds = $mtime - $lasttime;
            if( $diffSeconds < 30 ) {
                print "## $file is so new its $diffSeconds old\n";
            }
        }
        sleep 1;
        $lasttime = time;
    }
} ## end sub Main

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