On May 25, Keith A. Humphrey said:

>Is there a perl command that can tell me the age of a file?

Not on Unix.  You might be able to get a Windows or Mac specific module to
get the creation date of a file on those systems, but Unix does not store
the creation date of a file -- you can, however, get the last modification
time of a file.

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