# HG changeset patch
# User Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
# Date 1283281189 -10800
# Node ID bf4dcc22ccd9b8ee1ed0f3d0f7bc13c107e652ac
# Parent  1e6ccb387d27d0d56fbab30791ca2b0bf94e0a95
How get file time attributes.

diff -r 1e6ccb387d27 -r bf4dcc22ccd9 fs.rst
--- a/fs.rst	Mon Aug 30 23:51:37 2010 +0300
+++ b/fs.rst	Tue Aug 31 21:59:49 2010 +0300
@@ -14,6 +14,25 @@
 
   $ convmv --nosmart -f cp-1251 -t utf-8 -r $dir
 
+* How get file time attributes.
+
+POSIX define 3 file time attributes: atime (access time, only a few OS/fs update
+this parameter), ctime (attribute/inode modification time), mtime (modification
+time).
+
+To get time you can use 'ls' command but it print time in locale dependent
+irregular form:
+
+  $ ls -l file.txt      # last file modification
+  $ ls -lc file.txt     # last file status modification
+  $ ls -lu file.txt     # last access
+
+GNU coreutils provide more robust 'stst' utility:
+
+  $ stat -c %Y file.txt # last file modification
+  $ stat -c %Z file.txt # last file status modification
+  $ stat -c %X file.txt # last access
+
 * File names.
 
 ** POSIX.