Get age of a file/dir

Antoon Pardon apardon at forel.vub.ac.be
Wed Aug 2 11:13:41 EDT 2006


On 2006-08-01, Carl J. Van Arsdall <cvanarsdall at mvista.com> wrote:
> I've been looking around the OS module and I haven't found anything 
> useful yet.  Does anyone know how to get the age of a file or directory 
> in days?  I'm using unix and don't seem to find anything that will help 
> me.  The only function that comes close so far is
>
> os.path.getctime(path)
>
> However this only gets creation time on Windows, on Unix it gets the the 
> time of the last change.  Any ideas?

On unix there is no way to get the age of a file or directory,
there is no information stored somewhere from which you can
calculate that.

-- 
Antoon Pardon



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