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Reputation: 161

How Do You Get The Last Access Time Of A File In Epoch In C?

I'm trying to get the last access time of a file in epoch format in C but I can't figure out an easy way to do so. I know you can get the last access/last modified time of a file with stat() and then using st_atime but that returns the time back in a nice human readable format. Is there any way to return the time back in epoch format?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1084

Answers (1)

Jonathan Leffler
Jonathan Leffler

Reputation: 753625

That's puzzling; the value returned by stat() in st_atime is a time in seconds since The Epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 +00:00). It is not neatly formatted; you have to dissect it, probably with localtime() or gmtime() or one of the re-entrant variants of those functions, and then format it with one of the other time formatting functions (ctime(), asctime() or, better, strftime()).

Upvotes: 2

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