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authorAssaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com>2014-04-21 14:31:23 -0400
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-04-22 16:53:47 +0100
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doc: clarify meaning of stat's mtime and ctime formats
* src/stat.c (usage): s/modification time/data modification time/; s/change time/status change time/ * doc/coreutils.texi: Ditto.
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@@ -11829,10 +11829,10 @@ The valid @var{format} directives for files with @option{--format} and
@item %W - Time of file birth as seconds since Epoch, or @samp{0}
@item %x - Time of last access
@item %X - Time of last access as seconds since Epoch
-@item %y - Time of last modification
-@item %Y - Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch
-@item %z - Time of last change
-@item %Z - Time of last change as seconds since Epoch
+@item %y - Time of last data modification
+@item %Y - Time of last data modification as seconds since Epoch
+@item %z - Time of last status change
+@item %Z - Time of last status change as seconds since Epoch
@end itemize
The @samp{%t} and @samp{%T} formats operate on the st_rdev member of