| Syntax |
file.setModified (path, when)
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| Params |
path is a legal path name to the file or folder whose modification date you wish to set.
when is a date/time value or an expression that returns such a value. Generally, it uses clock.now or a calculation based on clock.now, but it can take any value that can be interpreted as a date including dates in string form.
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| Action |
Sets the modification date of the file.
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| Returns |
True if the file's modified date is successfully changed, false otherwise
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| Examples |
file.setModified ("C:\\Program Files\\Frontier\\sample.txt", clock.now ())
» true
file.setModified ("System:tmp", clock.now ())
» true
file.setModified ("System:tmp", 0)
» true
This script sets the date to 1/1/1904 12:00AM .
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| Notes |
Any operation that changes a file automatically updates its modification date.
You can get the modification date using the file.modified verb.
A file's modification date is very important - it can be used for backup scripts.
Generally speaking, you should not explicitly change a file's modification date.
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| See Also |
file.modified
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