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Am wondering when the directory last modified date is changed. I modified a file inside a particular directory (via FTP), but the directory's LMD did not change. How is it suppose to function?
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Windows file properties You can also see the modified date by viewing the file properties. Right-click the file and select Properties. In the Properties window, the Created date, Modified date, and Accessed date is displayed, similar to the example below.
Using the stat command, we can also control the output by the -c FORMAT option. There are two formats to display the mtime: %y – displays time of last data modification in a human-readable format. %Y – displays time of last data modification in number of seconds since Epoch.
date command with -r option followed by the name of file will display the last modified date and time of the file. which is the last modified date and time of the given file. date command can also be used to determine the last modified date of a directory.
The File. lastModified read-only property provides the last modified date of the file as the number of milliseconds since the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970 at midnight). Files without a known last modified date return the current date.
The mtime (modification time) on the directory itself changes when a file or a subdirectory is added, removed or renamed.
Modifying the contents of a file within the directory does not change the directory itself, nor does updating the modified times of a file or a subdirectory. Additionally, adding, removing or renaming files/directories in subdirectories does not propagate up to the directory. If you change the permissions on the directory, the ctime changes but the mtime does not.
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A directory is like a file that contains a list of the filenames in it (indeed, you may have accidentally opened a directory in an editor, where you can see it is a mostly-readable list of its contents) -- so it is modified when a file in that directory is added, removed, or renamed.
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