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Re: [MacPerl] stat function

At 16.09 -0400 1999.07.05, Graeme Kennedy wrote:
>Hi:
>
>The stat(<filename>) command returns an array of values for the file in
>question, one of which is the date of last modification. However, the date
>is encoded somehow, and I can't figure out how to convert it into a
>user-readable value.
>
>The value I get is: "931198265".

As the docs say, it is the "last modify time since the epoch".  i.e., this
is the number of seconds that have passed between the epoch (which in
MacPerl / Mac OS is Jan 1 1904 00:00 local time) and the last time it was
modified.  You can convert it into something useful using the localtime()
function.

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