The Natural Philosopher  writes:
> On 14/05/18 13:25, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher  writes:
>>> 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
>
> ??? in which case its no different from mtime is it?

mtime doesn’t change when you change permissions/owner.

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