import os from mercurial import hg, ui u = ui.ui() repo = hg.repository(u, 'test1', create=1) os.chdir('test1') # create 'foo' with fixed time stamp f = open('foo', 'w') f.write('foo\n') f.close() os.utime('foo', (1000, 1000)) # add+commit 'foo' repo[None].add(['foo']) repo.commit(text='commit1', date="0 0") print "workingfilectx.date =", repo[None]['foo'].date()