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Counting the Days Since an Arbitrary Date



require 'date'
def last_modified(file)
  t1 = File.stat(file).ctime
  t2 = Time.now
  elapsed = (t2-t1)/(60*60*24)
  puts "#{file} was last modified #{elapsed} days ago."
end

last_modified("c:\\")








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