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Re: Change timestamp of a directory

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From: Helmut Giese
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:51
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:13:00 -0500, "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <ed@mulroy.org>
wrote:

>This is more steps but easy and works on all versions of Windows.
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>Make a new, temp directory with some name
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>Move all the files to the temp directory
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>Remove the original directory
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>Read and save the system time and date and immediately set system time and
>date to the timestamp you want
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>Make a new directory with the name you want
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>Move the files to the new directory
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>Remove the temp directory
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>Using the amount of time that has elapsed since you set the phony time and
>date, add that to the saved values and set the system time and date.
Hm, I thought of that, too. But when going this route everything has
to work out 100% - no error allowed - never. Or else the system time
will remain set at an arbitrary point in the past - and leave a very
puzzled user. 
But thanks for this idea, I'll keep it in mind.
Best regards
Helmut Giese

>> Helmut Giese wrote in message
>> news:3e667f83.3979706@forums.borland.com...
>>
>> is it possible to change the timestamp of a directory
>> once it has been created? All my attempts so far have
>> been remarkably unsuccessful.
>
>
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