get creation time of hidden directory

allelopath · 12-29-2005, 10:09 AM

I want to see the creation time of an hidden directory, or any file for that matter.

Right clicking on the file in Konqueror gives a last modified time and a last accessed time, but no creation time. Can I change Konqueror so that it will show a creation time?

The 'stat' command shows the info below.
I don't see a creation time.

#stat .mydir
File: `.mydir'
Size: 152 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 302h/770d Inode: 521205 Links: 2
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/allelopath) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2005-12-29 09:10:48.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2005-12-28 14:19:38.000000000 -0700
Change: 2005-12-28 14:19:38.000000000 -0700

jimvin · 12-30-2005, 04:21 AM

Hi,
You can't show the creation time for a file, this data is not stored in most unix filesystems. Check out the man page for the syscall syscall stat (man 2 stat). There are three time values available for a file on a *nix filesystem.

Code:

time_t        st_atime;    /* time of last access */
time_t        st_mtime;    /* time of last modification */
time_t        st_ctime;    /* time of last status change *

Regards,
Jimvin

allelopath · 12-30-2005, 11:56 AM

thanks...kinda surprised that creation time is not stored.