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Actually, it's the last modified for a file, from the moment the script started. If your script has been running for 48 hours (it could happen), then -M is totally off course. stat is in this case a much safer approach.

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Re: Re: Answer: How do I interpret mtime with stat()?
by blakem (Monsignor) on Jan 10, 2002 at 06:39 UTC
    Well, actually the filetest operators compute their deltas against the value of $^T, which is initialized during startup. However, you may reset it if you think it's value might be getting stale: 
    $^T = time();
$age = -M $file;

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