[sf-lug] [acm]time (Re: time of last modification of a file as reported by stat)

[Michael Paoli]

> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:33:54 -0700
> From: Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>
> Subject: time of last modification of a file as reported by stat
>
> According to "man stat" on my Ubuntu system, part of the format
sequence
> can be:
>
>       %y     Time of last modification
>       %z     Time of last change
>
> What is the difference between "modification" and "change"? Aren't
they
> synonyms?

On UNIX and conformant (e.g. POSIX) filesystems on Linux, there are
three timestamps on each file (of any type):
atime
ctime
mtime
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