Subject: bug#32291: Fwd: ls -ltcr and ls -lrt report different modification dates

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 01:41:40 -0700

tags 32291 notabug
close 32291
stop

Hello,

Seems your message was not replied to in 6 months - sorry about that.

On 2018-07-27 3:48 a.m., Ludovic Tolhurst-Cleaver wrote:
> 
> `ls -ltcr` seems to be the one showing the correct date here. I like to 
> use `ls -ltc` because it's my initials. My colleague was running `ls -lrt`.
> 
> 
> $ ls -ltcr ludo*
> 
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 pax pax 237817 Jul 20 06:53 
> ludovic.tolhurst-cleaver_sabstt.com-log-20180720.gz
> 
> $ ls -lrt ludo*
> 
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 pax pax 237817 Jul 18 12:30 
> ludovic.tolhurst-cleaver_sabstt.com-log-20180720.gz

The manual explains the "-c" option:
===
$ ls --help
   -c                 with -lt: sort by, and show, ctime (time of last
                      modification of file status information);
===

What you are seeing is the file's status-change timestamp (with "-c")
versus the file's content modification timestamp (without "-c").
You can view all timestamps at once with:
    stat ludo*

As such, I'm closing this as "not a bug", but discussion can continue
by replying to this thread.

regards,
  - assaf