in reply to Re: Getting Absolute File Time-Stamp?
in thread Getting Absolute File Time-Stamp?

Ah, the field in stat returns the time in seconds since 1970, In GMT. So it will be the same regardless of the time zone. I assumed that the dash operators returned the same stuff that was in stat, but the stat gives the data in a different format, and is what I want here. Also, the docs for $^T didn't mention GMT (or UTC), but I suppose it is.

Only thing is, the value is rounded to the nearest second! I would have expected it to return decimal places based on the available accuracy of the file system.

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Re: Re: Re: Getting Absolute File Time-Stamp?
by Vautrin (Hermit) on Jan 23, 2004 at 22:39 UTC
    Only thing is, the value is rounded to the nearest second! I would have expected it to return decimal places based on the available accuracy of the file system.

    The number of seconds since the 0th second on January 1st, 1970 is a common unix time stamp. That's why it doesn't "return decimal places based on the available accuracy of the file system". Because it's a *nix time stamp, not a universal time stamp (although it is often used as such)

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      So is there a good portable way, or an existing popular module already implemented on various OS's, to get the native (or at least full-precision) time stamp of a file?
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