[Python-Dev] ctime: I don't think that word means what you think it means. (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sun Jun 14 10:59:41 CEST 2009


On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:40:53 am Greg Ewing wrote:

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > 1. Add a "stcrtime" field which gets populated on filesystems > (Windows, ZFS, Mac) which can do so.

"crtime" looks rather too similar to "ctime" for my liking. People who think that the "c" in "ctime" means "creation" are still likely to confuse them. Why not give it a more explicit name, such as "stcreationtime"?

Speaking as somebody who thought the c in ctime meant creation, I'm +1 on this proposal with Greg's modification.

-- Steven D'Aprano



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