On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, $Bill Luebkert wrote:

> alex p wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am trying to figure out a way to get the "last modified" date of a file.
> > I have looked at the following modules but they dont seem to address what i
> > need:  stat, utime, opendir
> >
> > does anyone know how to go about getting this date?
>
> stat should be fine :  my $mtime = (stat $path)[9];
>

And then to convert the $mtime to something useful, give it to
localtime(), e.g.

@date_fields=localtime($mtime);
   OR
$The_last_mod_time=scalar localtime($mtime);

**** [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Carl Jolley>
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