Re: Getting files/folders by creation date in the Finder
Re: Getting files/folders by creation date in the Finder
- Subject: Re: Getting files/folders by creation date in the Finder
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:58:35 -0400
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Steve Thompson<email@hidden> wrote:
> Not strange at all. Modification date is a HFS thing. No other linux based
> file systems have a concept of "Creation date".
Right. Traditional UNIX has three timestamps: ctime, mtime, and
atime. Those stand for "creation time", "modification time", and
"access time", but the "creation time" is a misnomer, since it is
updated anytime the file's metadata changes. The 'c' format option
to stat returns the ctime; the actual creation time is called the
"birth time of the inode", and is format option B.
> There are tools you can use to get the creation date. mdls will list the
> metadata for a file which will show kMDItemContentCreationDate. stat
> <filename> returns the creation date as column 8.
OMM (10.5.7) stat with no options returns the creation date as column 12.
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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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