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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 23 April 2007 17:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Monday 2007-04-23 at 07:21 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> ...
>
> > Often I need to know when I last accessed a file. If you do, too,
> > then don't use the noatime. Likewise for directories and
> > nodiratime.
>
> I often use the modification date, sometimes the creation date, but I
> have never needed to use the access time. And as for dirs, simply by
> listing a dir that time is modified.

So be it.

But if you need to find files knowing that you read them at a time 
certain (or approximate), then the Unix "access time" is what you need.


> --
> Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.


Randall Schulz
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