[rhn-users] timestamp needs seconds

[Carl G. Riches]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Paula J. Lindsay wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a RHE ws 3.  This linux box is connected to an nmr machine which is 
> doing experiments with cryonics.  When the scientist wants
> to know exactly what time, by seconds, his file was created, he only sees:
>
> --rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Mar 20  2006 .fonts.cache-1
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        63332 Mar 20  2006 testfile
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        43543 Sep 18  2005 last.050918
>
> How can I get the timestamp on the file to read hour:minutes:seconds
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Mar 20 12:23:46  2006 phase2
> the minutes and seconds are the most important.  I did a man on ls,
> but it didn't have what I needed, at least what I tried.
> Many thanks in advance for your help.
> Paula
>

Do you have the "--full-time" option to your version of ls?
For example:

   $ ls --full-time testfile
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cgr staff 0 2007-03-15 16:14:11.268683000 -0700 testfile

That looks like time in HH:MM:SS.fraction?

Carl

Carl G. Riches
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