'''file atime''' ''name ?time?''

Returns a decimal string giving the time at which file ''name'' was last accessed. If ''time'' is specified, it is an access time to set for the file. The time is measured in the standard POSIX fashion as seconds from a fixed starting time (often January 1, 1970). If the file doesn't exist or its access time cannot be queried or set then an error is generated. On Windows, FAT file systems do not support access time.

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Note that there does not appear to be an interface to ctime - the time the last file attribute change occured. The ctime that is returned by file attributes is NOT the creation time (at least not on Unix).

The value of ctime is returned by the [file stat] command.  The ctime is not the creation time but the last time one of the values returned by [file stat] changed (ergo, ctime=change time?).  The ctime value can't be edited directly, but editing mtime or atime will change the ctime value.
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See also:

   * [file]
   * [file mtime]
   * [file stat]

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