[Python-Dev] ctime: I don't think that word means what you think it means.

[Scott David Daniels]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:40:53 am Greg Ewing wrote:
>> Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
>>> 1.  Add a "st_crtime" field which gets populated on filesystems
>>> (Windows, ZFS, Mac) which can do so.
>> "crtime" looks rather too similar to "ctime" for my
>> liking. People who think that the "c" in "ctime"
>> means "creation" are still likely to confuse them.
>>
>> Why not give it a more explicit name, such
>> as "st_creationtime"?

My this bike-shed looks a bit greenish.  How about:
          creation_time
or, at least,
          st_creation_time

> Speaking as somebody who thought the c in ctime meant creation, I'm +1 
> on this proposal with Greg's modification.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org