I'm downloading some files from an FTP site and obviously the modification date and time of the local file will be when the download happened.

What I'm looking to do it modify the modification time so that the minutes are set to 00. This is because the mode time is used for tracking "freshness" of the files. I've looked at alternatives - this is the only way to achieve what I want.

Say a file is downloaded at 13:34, I want to change the modification time to 13:00.

I've seen a couple of shell scripts which "touch" files to set dates and times. Is this possible in Perl? I'm using Linux as the platform so I'm guessing its possible somehow.

- Speedy

In reply to Modifying file access times on Unix through Perl. by Speedfreak

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