Understanding the Timestamps
Timestamps show the information about the timezone. Generally, the timestamps show the time at which the file was created from the UTC timezone. if the value is positive, then the file was created ahead of the UTC timezone and if the value is negative then the file is created before the UTC timezone. For example:
In the above example, the value of the timestamp is +0530 which means the file is created 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC time. Here is one note for stat command, your shell may have its own version of the stat. To know about your shell stat read the man page using the man command:
man stat
Stat command in Linux with examples
The stat is a command which gives information about the file and filesystem. Stat command gives information such as the size of the file, access permissions and the user ID and group ID, birth time access time of the file. Stat command has another feature, by which it can also provide the file system information. This is the best tool to use when we want the information of any file.
Now let’ see one by one how can we use the stat command.