Re: Compare 2 times

On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:50:02 -0700, loial wrote:

I have a requirement to test the creation time of a file with the current
time and raise a message if the file is more than 15 minutes old.

Platform is Unix.

I have looked at using os.path.getctime for the file creation time and
time.time() for the current time, but is this the best approach?

Most Unix filesystems don't store a "creation" time.

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