# filetime [Documentation](https://docs.rs/filetime) > **Note**: this library is quite old and superseded by functionality in the > standard library. Nowadays you shouldn't use this crate and you should use > [`FileTimes`] and [`File::set_times`] instead. [`FileTimes`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/fs/struct.FileTimes.html [`File::set_times`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/fs/struct.File.html#method.set_times A helper library for inspecting and setting the various timestamps of files in Rust. This library takes into account cross-platform differences in terms of where the timestamps are located, what they are called, and how to convert them into a platform-independent representation. ```toml # Cargo.toml [dependencies] filetime = "0.2" ``` # Advantages over using `std::fs::Metadata` This library, when built with `RUSTFLAGS=--cfg emulate_second_only_system` set, will return all times rounded down to the second. This emulates the behavior of some file systems, mostly [HFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus), allowing debugging on other hardware. # License This project is licensed under either of * Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) * MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option. ### Contribution Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Filetime by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.