Re: file/directory creation date and time

"John DeSoi (as john at desoi dot dev)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <0100019aeefb9adb-b628091a-be73-46af-997d-72edf5dc7365-000000@email.amazonses.com> 
"file-create-date" returns no match in the LW documentation search. 

I'm not sure what the difference is between system:file-stat-last-change and system:file-stat-last-modify, but they don't give the creation timestamp. And they only work on files, not directories. 

The only option I found so far is osicat, but it seems overkill to add it as a dependency only for this purpose. I'll probably have to work out the system API. I only need macOS for now.

Thanks,

John DeSoi, Ph.D.


> On Dec 5, 2025, at 1:24 AM, Alexey Veretennikov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> You can use something like this (decode-universal-time (file-create-date "myfile.txt")),
> 
> or on *nix
> 
> (system:file-stat-last-change (system:get-file-stat "myfile.txt")) to get Epoch timestamp
>
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