Re: Date added?
Re: Date added?
- Subject: Re: Date added?
- From: Paul Kim <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:19:08 -0400
It's none of those. It's the date when a file was added to its containing directory. The file is created once but it can be moved to different directories thus updating its added time.
Paul Kim
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On Sep 14, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
> On 9/13/2011 11:18 AM, Paul Kim wrote:
>> I know that OS X has been recording the date added (when a file was added to its directory)
> > since Stacks was introduced but it hasn't been accessible to us devs, as far as I could tell.
> > In Lion, date added is more prominent as it is seen in Finder and even indexed by Spotlight.
> > Where is this attribute stored? I can't seem to find it in the normal places. Is there a way
> > to get at this field without using Spotlight?
>
> This has always been referred to as "ctime" (creation time) in unix circles. Is there not a ctime, atime and mtime field in the stat structure that are meaningful?
>
> Gregg Wonderly
>
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