how to get file create/update time in mercurial?

Question

I'm writing my blog system(django), and my blog files are VCSed by mercurial,

I want get files create/update time, how could I do this by using commandline or python?

edit: this is a example:

$ SOME_COMMAND
xxx.txt 2010-12-13-04:12:12 2010-12-14:04:12:12
xyx.txt 2010-12-13-04:12:12 2010-12-14:04:12:12
xxy.txt 2010-12-13-04:12:12 2010-12-14:04:12:12
yxx.txt 2010-12-13-04:12:12 2010-12-14:04:12:12
yyx.txt 2010-12-13-04:12:12 2010-12-14:04:12:12

Answer 1

To get the most recent modification time of a file:

hg log --template '{date}' -l 1 path/to/file

and to get the creation time:

hg log --template '{date}' -r 0:tip -l 1 README

Example output:

$ hg log --template '{date}' -r 0:tip -l 1 README
1115154970.028800

$ hg log --template '{date}' -l 1 README
1255462070.025200

Those date values are unix epoc seconds followed by a dot and a timezone offset. You can pretty format them using various filters described in hg help templates like this:

$ hg log --template '{date|rfc822date}' -l 1 README
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:27:50 -0700