pekka niiranen said:
Does anybody know Python recipe for changing the date
of the directory or files in W2K to current date and time?
In UNIX shell command "touch" does it.
See below. The key is using the FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# dirtest.py
from win32file import *
from pywintypes import Time
import time
x=CreateFile(r"d:\scratch\testdir",GENERIC_READ+GENERIC_WRITE,
FILE_SHARE_WRITE,None,OPEN_EXISTING,FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS,0)
i,c,a,w= GetFileTime(x)
print "create",c,"access",a,"write",w
SetFileTime(x,Time(int(c)-24*3600),Time(int(c)-12*3600),Time(int(c)
-3*3600))
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\e\littlepython>dirtest.py
create 01/21/05 04:27:04 access 01/21/05 16:27:04 write 01/22/05
01:27:04
C:\e\littlepython>dirtest.py
create 01/20/05 03:27:04 access 01/20/05 15:27:04 write 01/21/05
00:27:04
C:\e\littlepython>dir d:\scratch\testdir
....
Verzeichnis von d:\scratch\testdir
20.01.2005 00:27 <DIR> .
20.01.2005 00:27 <DIR> ..
0 Datei(en) 0 Bytes
2 Verzeichnis(se), 806.768.640 Bytes frei