[Canberra-pm] Most efficient way to find the ISO 8602 date of a the most recently modifiec file in a directory

[Michael James]

On Thu, 4 May 2006 11:41 am, John.Hockaday at ga.gov.au wrote:

> I am trying to find the date
> of the most recently modified file in a directory.
> I thought that someone should have done this already.
> I have been looking into:
> 
> Date::Calc(Time_to_Date)
> File::stat
> localtime

> The output should be in ISO 8601 format.
> IE, 2006-05-04T11:21:20

There is a good section on this in the perl Cookbook,
 recipe 3.9 page 101.


You Do have the Perl Cookbook don't you?
The only question is whether you need a second copy,
 it's a heavy book to carry around ...

Seriously though, If you can't lay your hands on one quickly,
 I'll relay some of the goodness therein.


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You Do have the Perl Cookbook don't you?
The only question is whether you need a second copy,
 it's a heavy book to carry home...

seriously though, If you can't lay your hands on one quickly,
 I'll relay some of the goodness therein.