Setting Creation Date of file to a past date?

[Sean Cole (Pi)]

Touch tells it to update to now unless the date set is in the past and you
use the -d modifier.

If you install the Command Line Tools package from Apple on a mac you can
use the much better   SetFile -d '12/31/1999 23:59:59' file.txt


On windoze, using powershell, send the command:
(Get-Item "C:\Folder\File.txt").CreationTime=("31 December 2019 23:59:59")

>From LC, use:
put "powershell -command '(Get-Item 'C:\Folder\File.txt').CreationTime=('31
December 2019 23:59:59')' into tShell
replace "'" with quote in tShell
get shell(tShell)

Sean

On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 01:35, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 3/14/21 4:41 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
> > Windows unfortunately does not include such a command line tool
>
> I am astounded to find there is no touch command for Win.
> However, there does appear to be a solution for Windows (untested) using
> commandline options for the copy command:
>
> date desiredDate
> copy /b filename.ext +,,
>
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/10426/windows-equivalent-of-the-linux-command-touch/764716
>
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