Re: getting last accessed date
Re: getting last accessed date
- Subject: Re: getting last accessed date
- From: Joar Wingfors <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:04:43 -0700
Hello Rick,
The access date on a file is updated very frequently. I think that stat:ing the file is enough, and that happens all the time.
If what you're looking for is the last *opened* date of the file, I think that your best bet is the kMDItemLastUsedDate spotlight metadata attribute.
j o a r
On 7 jul 2011, at 20:35, Rick C. wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I'm using this code to get the last accessed date of a file:
>
> struct stat output;
>
> int ret = stat([aFile fileSystemRepresentation], &output);
> struct timespec accessTime = output.st_atimespec;
> NSDate *aDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:accessTime.tv_sec];
>
> NSLog(@"Access Time %d, %@",ret, aDate);
>
> But it's just giving me today's date. There must be something obvious I'm doing wrong but I have not been able to figure it out. Any pointers? And I couldn't use NSURLContentAccessDate because I still need 10.5 support. Thanks!
>
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