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Difference between the date returned by hadoop fs -ls and hadoop fs -stat

Is there any difference between the dates returned by

hadoop fs -ls myfile

and

hadoop fs -stat myfile
Solution

  • Although by default both will display modification time, -stat shows time in UTC while -ls converts it to local timezone and drops seconds. From Hadoop file system shell doc:

    stat
    Usage: hadoop fs -stat [format] path
    ... %x and %y show UTC date as “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss”