Subj : Re: Renaming/dating directories FTP server (date) on content directorie
To   : Steve
From : CBFalconer
Date : Sat Dec 01 2001 07:20 pm

From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>

"E. S. (Steve) Fabian" wrote:
>
> reply@newsgroup.please wrote:
> >
> > Situation: disk for FTP server crashes. All directories have to be
recreated.
> > But they now get all the same date (today). For users this is irritating,
> > because now they cann't check whether a (sub)directory has been added.
> >
> > I would like to re*date* all (sub)directories on basis of the content of
the
> > folders: be it on the biggest .exe file or date of the file with the most
> > recent date.
> >
> > Can this be done using 4Dos ?
>
> Unfortunately, the underlying OS treats directory files differently than
> other files. Thus the only way to create a subdirectory with a specific
> date and time is to change the system date and time. Tedious, but you
> can automate it in 4DOS; the biggest problem is that of restoring the
> proper date and time when done.
>
> Invocation: makedir dir date time
>
> @echo off
> setlocal
> set d=%_date
> set t=%_time
> echo %2 | date
> echo %3 | time
> md %dir
> echo %t | time
> echo %d | date
>
> NB: Every method of creating a FAT/VFAT/FAT32 subdirectory has this
> limitation. Don't know about NTFS.

Slight improvement (note md command):

@echo off
setlocal
set d=%_date
set t=%_time
echo %2 | date >nul
echo %3 | time >nul
md %1
echo %t | time >nul
echo %d | date >nul

Needs some complications to validate parameters and/or to take input from the 
output of "dir /a:d".

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