It seemed that using the 'stat' command was the way to go in order to get details about the file.
MAC OS X Developer Docs on stat command are here or you can 'man stat' on the command line.
Wading my way through the different formats that could be returned I came up with:
Find the last accessed time on a file
stat -f "%Sa" /path/to/file Jul 19 12:05:26 2014
Find the last modified time on a file
stat -f "%Sm" /path/to/file Oct 5 08:46:15 2013
Find the creation time on a file. (ie the Birth time of the inode)
stat -f "%SB" /path/to/file Jul 18 19:21:39 2014
Not to be confused with %Sc which was the last time the inode changed, not the last change time.
