Jon LaBadie wrote at 22:23 -0400 on Sep 26, 2007: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:57:11PM -0600, John Hein wrote: > > stat -x foo > > File: "foo" > > Size: 296422 FileType: Regular File > > Mode: (0444/-r--r--r--) Uid: ( 631/ nrg) Gid: ( 2005/ > > web) > > Device: 0,86 Inode: 28006660 Links: 1 > > Access: Tue Sep 25 06:29:20 2007 > > Modify: Mon Feb 23 14:34:18 2004 > > Change: Mon Sep 17 15:04:20 2007 . . . > mtime is not the timestamp in question, it is ctime. > > mtime changes when the data is modified. > > ctime changes when a property of the file changes. > the properties include mtime for data modification, > but also owner, links, mode, etc.
Fair enough, but in the example above, ctime is 9/17. This failure happened on 9/25 (exactly atime, in fact).
