fileTime -- get or set file modified time

Usage:

fileTime s or fileTime(t,s)
Inputs:
- t, an integer, if present, the file-modified-time will be set to this value
- s, a string, the name of a file
Outputs:
- an integer, the last modified date of the file with name s
Consequences:
- fileTime(t,s) sets the last modified time for the file s to t, and returns null if no error occurs

Description

The value is the number of seconds since 00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC, the beginning of the epoch, so the number of seconds ago a file or directory was modified may be found by using the following code.

i1 : currentTime() - fileTime "."

o1 = 48

For the programmer

The object fileTime is a compiled function.

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fileTime -- get or set file modified time

Description

See also

For the programmer