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		joepvd on June 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix is not an acceptable Unix Nitpick, sorry. `ctime` is not Creation Time, but Change Time. The traditional *NIX file systems do not have a meta data field for creation time.

andmarios on June 9, 2015 [–]

Thank you; I naively assumed since we have modification time (mtime), ctime would stand for creation time. :)

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