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
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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]
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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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