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Well it IS pretty useful; that's why most of my documents start with a date part like "160822 Something Something"; they'll still be sorted by /creation time/ n
by buserror 10y ago
Well it IS pretty useful; that's why most of my documents start with a date part like "160822 Something Something"; they'll still be sorted by /creation time/ next time I make a change.
Also very useful for photographs for example, when you can edit the EXIF without the whole lot becoming randomly sorted.
- kalleboo 10y agoYeah, I use creation time all the time on OS X. Meanwhile I can't imagine what access time would be used for.
- Xophmeister 10y agoWe use atime at work as a proxy for "does this file really need to exist?" on our cluster's scratch disks.
- 0x0 10y agoatime is heavily used by traditional mail clients like mutt, to determine which mailboxes have new mail: If atime < mtime, then there has been a write to a file since the last read. Because updating atime on every file access carries an IO overhead, there's a mount option "relatime" that only updates atime if atime < mtime. This preserves the "new mail" feature of mutt, but doesn't require atime writes for every file read operation, which is a decent compromise.
- c3833174 10y agorelatime has also been the default on Linux for many years.
- swiley 10y agoI've been wanting to write a program that checks atime on stuff like music and then looks for bitcoin addresses to send micropayments to (so you get something like a generalised peer to peer Spotify). I've started a couple times but kept throwing it out, all my FSs that support it are still mounted with atime. I guess I've never knowingly used it for anything else though.
- forgetfullest 10y agoOnce you go YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS for photographs, you'll never go back (having the exact millisecond would be neat though)
- CaptSpify 10y agos/photographs/your documents/g