site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:10 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: man stat a, m, c, B The time file was last accessed or modified, of when the inode was last changed, or the birth time of the inode. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But when I try it: $ stat -f "%a %m %c %B %N" main.c stat: %B: bad format 1151517549 1151517549 1151517549 - boyd _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... The creation date information you and maurits have been referring to (as copied by the Finder) is another bit of information in the HFS catalog which isn't currently exposed via stat() Err, I thought that it was, actually: the FreeBSD "birth time" (btime) is exposed by stat(1) ?? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com