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Subject: What does the value returned by st_mtime in the stat structure mean?
Keywords: stat
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.041634.12760@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 21 Dec 90 04:16:34 GMT
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Organization: Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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I am writing a UNIX system program to retrieve file information
using the stat system call.

In my code I have the following lines:

     struct stat statbuf;

     stat (filename,&statbuf);

     printf ("%ld",statbuf.st_mtime);

This prints out a number like 661742557 for the time the contents
of the file were last modified.
What does this number mean and how would I convert to more
intelligible format (such as day/month/year hour:minute) if
possible ?

Any comments would be much appreciated.
Ralph Blake   Melbourne, Australia
vac269k@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au