Change filedate

[Fred Hare]

I need to change the file creation dates of textfiles using Perl in
Windows XP. I have path and filename in $filename and the new date in
$newdate but I cannot find the command for changing the filedates.

-- Fred

 

[David Efflandt]

I need to change the file creation dates of textfiles using Perl in
Windows XP. I have path and filename in $filename and the new date in
$newdate but I cannot find the command for changing the filedates.

-- Fred

perldoc -f utime

This works for changing access and modification times on Unix (and like)
systems, but not sure about Windows. It takes a list of NUMERICAL
(seconds past the epoch) access and modification times for first 2
elements of list and rest of list is files to change. It returns number
of files actually changed.

 

[Fred Hare]

perldoc -f utime

This works for changing access and modification times on Unix (and like)
systems, but not sure about Windows. It takes a list of NUMERICAL
(seconds past the epoch) access and modification times for first 2
elements of list and rest of list is files to change. It returns number
of files actually changed.

Thank you David, this works fine in Win XP...

-- Fred