On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 03:06:30PM +0000, Michael D. Berger wrote: > ls -lrt * > Is the precision of this only to the second? Yes. File timestamps are reported by the stat() call as time_t values, which are "seconds past 00:00:00 1/1/1970". So "ls" can only sort to a 1 second precision. -- rgds Stephen