[CentOS] ls -lrt reversal

Wed Jun 9 15:22:13 UTC 2010
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

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.

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rgds
Stephen