I already read it so many questions and answers about it but I can't still solve my problem... I'm trying to create a function that deletes all the files with "xml" or "xsl" extension that has bee...

I'm writing a photo gallery script in PHP and have a single directory where the user will store their pictures. I'm attempting to set up page caching and have the cache refresh only if the contents...

I'm trying to display an array of files in order of date (last modified). I have done this buy looping through the array and sorting it into another array, but is there an easier (more efficient) ...

I there, I am currently writing a unit test which asserts that a file did not get modified. The test code execution takes less than one second and therefore I would like to know if it is possible t...

I'm trying to determine if it's better to store an image's last modified date in a MySQL database or use the PHP function filemtime. In my case, all of the website info is stored in a database (cm...

On Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.12.2 (with R 3.3.2), it appears that file.mtime() severely rounds or truncates timestamps. I verified that file.create("my_file.txt"); print(as.numeric(file.mtime("my_fil...

Is there a way of preserving the timestamp when using Paramiko to SFTP files from one server to another similar to the -p argument in Linux? Original file: jim@vm3634:~$ ls -la -rwxrwx--- 1 jim...

I have a folder with 4 files in it and I'd like to pull the last modified time of the most recent one (which may not always be the same one). Is there a good way to do that?

With batch variable/parameter expansion like %~t1 one can get a timestamp of a file. I would like to set the year of the file to another variable would like to support multiple locales. How can y...

For a file containing few bytes under Linux, I need only to process when it was changed since the last time it was processed. I check whether the file was changed by calling PHP clearstatcache(); f...

I want to check if a file is older than a certain amount of time (e.g. 2 days). I managed to get the file creation time in such a way: >>> import os.path, time >>> fileCreation ...

I wish to change the timestamp metadata on files in Java using the java.nio.Files class. I would like to change all 3 Linux/ext4 timestamps (last modified, access, and changed). I am able to chan...

I use the PHP function filemtime to get the last modification time with PHP 5.3. This functions works very well but it seems to have some problems when the filenames have special characters (for ex...

I am creating a WordPress plugin and can see that on some servers, for certain files, the stat (or filemtime) returning invalid mtime value. In some cases it is a negative value or a very large val...

i'm using filemtime for fingerprinting external resources in html, like: <link rel="stylesheet" href="screen-<?=md5(filemtime('screen.css'));?>.css"> I noticed a significant delay be...

Try running <?php echo filemtime("test.txt")."\n"; sleep(4); file_put_contents("test.txt", "test"); echo filemtime("test.txt")."\n"; ?> For me the command line printed: 1343490984 134...

Let's clarify this once and for all. I tried to Google this but it seems this information can't be found in one place. When a file is created or removed, the holding directory mtime changes on Win...