On 2016-05-15 20:48, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Also, remember that most operating systems provide (at least) three > different times. I'm not sure which one you want, but if I had to > guess, I would probably guess mtime. If I remember correctly: > > atime is usually the last access time; > mtime is usually the last modification time; > ctime is the creation time, but only on OS-X; > ctime on Linux and Windows is, um, something else... > > To use one of the other two, change "st_mtime" to "st_ctime" or > "st_atime".
As an added wrinkle, some of us turn off "atime" in our /etc/ftab because it tends to slow things down with little benefit in return. So Steven was right to recommend "mtime" as it's usually what people want. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
