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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to compare time of last file modification?
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:41:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bok0z517.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fw9cz56k.fsf@googlemail.com

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi List, 
> the Elisp manual tells me about file-attributes:
>
>
>      4. The time of last access, as a list of two integers. The
>         first integer has the high-order 16 bits of time, the
>         second has the low 16 bits. (This is similar to the value
>         of current-time; see Time of Day.) Note that on some
>         FAT-based filesystems, only the date of last access is
>         recorded, so this time will always hold the midnight of the
>         day of last access.
>        
>      5. The time of last modification as a list of two integers (as
>         above). This is the last time when the file's contents were
>         modified.
>
>
> If I want to compare the time of last modification of two files - how do
> I do that, using these two integers? 

Ups, I just found the function 'file-newer-than-file-p' that solves my
problem. Sorry for the noise. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-01  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-01  0:38 How to compare time of last file modification? Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-01  0:41 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.3790.1341102956.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-01  1:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-01  8:56   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-01  9:23   ` Michael Albinus
2012-07-01 10:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-07-01 17:26   ` Thorsten Jolitz
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3833.1341163416.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-01 17:36     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-01 21:11       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-07-01 19:48     ` Barry Margolin
2012-07-01 20:26       ` Thorsten Jolitz

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