Topic: How do I change file modification time with incrementing values

Is there a way to change file modification time of the selected files ?
I was unsuccessdul at finding it while searching under "time".

I would like to set a reference time and have the files changes to that time. If more than one file is selected it would have an option to increment the time by an offset .

Example 1 minute increment:
Each file would be changed to the reference time + 0 to x offset.
  Selected File #1 - Reference Time.
  Selected file #2 - Reference Time + 1 minute.

Often when I download files from the web and the file modification time is set to the downloaded time... so the file sort order is determined by the order the files were downloaded. It would be great to use Siren to change the file time to match the user specified file time.

Thanks for your excellent work... Siren is Great!

Best regards,

DG

Re: How do I change file modification time with incrementing values

Hello,

Sorry but Siren changes only file names.
To achieve this task you will have to find another tool.

3 (edited by Stefan 2007-04-22 01:24:04)

Re: How do I change file modification time with incrementing values

Hi dgbear, welcome.
May i give an hint rplr?

If you don't mind, ther's an addin for Total Commander which do the trick, 'ReDate' at http://thehacker.host.sk/redate/
The source code for Delphi 6 is also available there.
Picture: http://thehacker.host.sk/redate/redatescreenshot.png

Then there is Flexible Renamer at http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014830 … /FlexRena/
which can do all one could want to do with time stamps.


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Re: How do I change file modification time with incrementing values

Stefan wrote:

May i give an hint rplr?

Of course you can ! That's what this forum is for.

To change file dates I sometime use Attributes Changer.
It is very effective but I am not sure that it can do what dgbear is looking for.

5 (edited by Stefan 2007-04-06 22:08:42)

Re: How do I change file modification time with incrementing values

Ahh, 'Attributes Changer' was what i am looking for the last hour. I remember there was such an tool, but didn't remind the name.
Yes, AC can shift the date and time relative  too: ""Use relative adjustments if you like to apply date and time offsets to file objects.""