Re: How to compare time of last file modification?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi List, 
> the Elisp manual tells me about file-attributes:
>
>
>      4. The time of last access, as a list of two integers. The
>         first integer has the high-order 16 bits of time, the
>         second has the low 16 bits. (This is similar to the value
>         of current-time; see Time of Day.) Note that on some
>         FAT-based filesystems, only the date of last access is
>         recorded, so this time will always hold the midnight of the
>         day of last access.
>        
>      5. The time of last modification as a list of two integers (as
>         above). This is the last time when the file's contents were
>         modified.
>
>
> If I want to compare the time of last modification of two files - how do
> I do that, using these two integers? 

Ups, I just found the function 'file-newer-than-file-p' that solves my
problem. Sorry for the noise. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten