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Re: Change timestamp of a directory

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From: Nico Bendlin
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 23:05
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Helmut Giese wrote:
> Hello out there,
> is it possible to change the timestamp of a directory once it has been
> created? All my attempts so far have been remarkably unsuccessful.

On WinNT use CreateFile with FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag
(requires the privileges SE_BACKUP_NAME and SE_RESTORE_NAME).

Secondly, an diretory has only one timestamp (CreationTime).
Do not try to set LastAccessTime or LastWriteTime at all.

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