Justin Collins wrote:
> Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
>>> At Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:53:39 +0900,
>>> Jeremy Tregunna wrote in [ruby-talk:208696]:
>>> > Note the ctime. You can fetch this programmatically to.
>>>
>>> Isn't it the change time?
>>>
>>> It is platform specific indeed.  Windows calls the creation
>>> time as ctime.
>>
>> atime   - last access
>> mtime  - modified
>> ctime   - created
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rimantas
>> -- 
>> http://rimantas.com/
>>
>
> Ruby docs say:
>
> "Returns the change time for the named file (the time at which 
> directory information about the file was changed, not the file itself)."
>
> -Justin
>
Oops, I forgot to mention that's for File.ctime:

File.ctime(file_name) => time

Returns the change time for the named file (the time at which directory 
information about the file was changed, not the file itself).



-Justin