Jon LaBadie wrote at 22:23 -0400 on Sep 26, 2007:
 > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:57:11PM -0600, John Hein wrote:
 > > stat -x foo
 > >   File: "foo"
 > >   Size: 296422       FileType: Regular File
 > >   Mode: (0444/-r--r--r--)         Uid: (  631/     nrg)  Gid: ( 2005/     
 > > web)
 > > Device: 0,86   Inode: 28006660    Links: 1
 > > Access: Tue Sep 25 06:29:20 2007
 > > Modify: Mon Feb 23 14:34:18 2004
 > > Change: Mon Sep 17 15:04:20 2007
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 > mtime is not the timestamp in question, it is ctime.
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 > mtime changes when the data is modified.
 > 
 > ctime changes when a property of the file changes.
 > the properties include mtime for data modification,
 > but also owner, links, mode, etc.

Fair enough, but in the example above, ctime is 9/17.  This failure
happened on 9/25 (exactly atime, in fact).