Method: File.ctime

Defined in:
file.c

.ctime(file_name) ⇒ Time

Returns the change time for the named file (the time at which directory information about the file was changed, not the file itself).

file_name can be an IO object.

Note that on Windows (NTFS), returns creation time (birth time).

File.ctime("testfile")   #=> Wed Apr 09 08:53:13 CDT 2003

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# File 'file.c', line 2421

static VALUE
rb_file_s_ctime(VALUE klass, VALUE fname)
{
    struct stat st;

    if (rb_stat(fname, &st) < 0) {
	int e = errno;
	FilePathValue(fname);
	rb_syserr_fail_path(e, fname);
    }
    return stat_ctime(&st);
}