utime(1)

💖 utime(1) — the ShapeTools era, bestie 💖

okay so welcome to utime, a lil utility from the ShapeTools lineup, and honestly? it does exactly one thing and it does it flawlessly. no notes. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

utime — set file times 🕰️

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

utime access_time modification_time file ...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: utime sets the access and modification times of the files you point it at. that's it. that's the whole job. and it ate. 🔥

the access time gets set to the first value you give it, and the modification time gets set to the second value. two numbers, in that order, no switching them up or the whole thing is giving chaos energy. 🙈

and what are those numbers, you ask? they're seconds since 00:00:00 GMT Jan 1, 1970. yes, that's the Unix epoch, the moment time itself started, the main character of timestamps. every file time is just "how many seconds after that iconic midnight." periodt. ⭐

then after those two times, you list your file ... — one or more files, and they all get those same two times stamped on them. group treatment, love that for them. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• utime(2) — the syscall behind the curtain, iykyk 🦋

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Juergen.Nickelsen@cs.tu-berlin.de

okay bestie that's the whole page, and before you go — this one came from rcs2atfs-1.9, dated Tue Jun 29 16:38:31 1993. like… a whole era. vintage. archival. the blueprint. 🎀✨ go set some timestamps, you've got this 💖