01-20-2011
There is no "date of creation" file timestamp in unix. The nearest is "time of last modification of the inode" (see the "-c" option in "ls") but this timestamp is overwritten by some backup software and also by permissions commands such as "chmod".
Most people only use the "last modification" timestamp which is also the default timestamp displayed by "ls".
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dm_date
DM_DATE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation DM_DATE(1)
NAME
dm_date - print out the system date and time
SYNOPSIS
This performs the same operation as the unix 'date' command, but using the Date::Manip module.
dm_date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
DESCRIPTION
This displays information about the current system time, or some other time. Options are:
-h, --help
Print online help.
-d STRING, --date=STRING
Display time described by STRING. STRING can be any string which can be parsed by Date::Manip. Please refer to the Date::Manip::Date
documentation for details.
-f DATEFILE, --file=DATEFILE
This reads each line in DATEFILE, and extracts a date from it and prints out the information.
Blank lines and lines starting with a pound (#) are ignored. Lines not containing a valid date are also ignored.
-r FILE, --reference=FILE
Displays the last modification time of FILE.
-R, --rfc-2822
Displayc the date and time in RFC 2822 format.
Example: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:34:56 -0600
-u, --utc, --universal
Converts the date to UT (GMT) and prints out the information.
Only one of -d, -f, or -r should be included. If more than one is included, the first one from the list (-d, -f, -r) is used and any other
is ignored.
The format string starts with a plus (+) and contains any of the format directives described in Date::Manip::Date.
KNOWN BUGS
None known.
BUGS AND QUESTIONS
Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.
SEE ALSO
Date::Manip::Date
LICENSE
This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)
perl v5.16.3 2014-06-09 DM_DATE(1)