I checked the posix standard, stat() is in there, operates on a filename,
include  and  to get it.  The dates
are all of type time_t, so you can use strftime() on them.  The Posix
standard further restricts time_t to be the number of seconds since 1970,
although they don't make that clear (Posix was created by dickheads - who
else would make fork() part of the standard when hardly anyone can do one
of them, and most people really are just trying to do an spawn() when they
use fork() (because they follow it with an exec())).  BFN.  Paul. 
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