The Natural Philosopher  writes:
> On 14/05/18 08:50, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher  writes:
>>> mtime atime and IIRC ctime
>>>
>>> https://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/04/atime-ctime-mtime-in-unix-filesystems/
>>>
>>> last modfied, last accessed and when created.
>>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> ctime is not creation time. Read your own link l-)
>
> LOL.
>
> Well Ive always used to to determine when a file was created as its
> rare to change permissions and that's my excuse..

That doesn’t work either...

  $ rm -f a
  $ touch a
  $ stat -c 'mtime: %y ctime: %z' a
  mtime: 2018-05-14 13:21:01.746205877 +0100 ctime: 2018-05-14
13:21:01.746205877 +0100
  $ echo whatever >> a
  $ stat -c 'mtime: %y ctime: %z' a
  mtime: 2018-05-14 13:21:26.834237884 +0100 ctime: 2018-05-14
13:21:26.834237884 +0100

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