Re^2: Folder modified time


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Re^2: Folder modified time

by Crackers2 (Parson)

on Aug 28, 2009 at 14:30 UTC ( [id://791925]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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That test doesn't seem to match his description. That would be more like:

> md dir1
> md dir1\dir2
> copy nul dir1\dir2\file
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And he's expecting the mtime of dir1 to be updated after the copy.

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Re^3: Folder modified time
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 28, 2009 at 16:46 UTC

The system (NTFS + WinXP) doesn't appear to work that way.

As you can see, the system says the parent directory (".") was last modified earlier than when the child directory ("dir2") was last modified:

>dir dir1
 Volume in drive C is C
 Volume Serial Number is 28AB-0E8B

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\ikegami\dir1

2009/08/28  12:43 PM    <DIR>          .
2009/08/28  12:43 PM    <DIR>          ..
2009/08/28  12:44 PM    <DIR>          dir2
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Perl reports the same.

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