Subj : Renaming/dating directories FTP server (date) on content directorie
To   : CBFalconer
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Sat Dec 01 2001 11:44 pm

Hello Chuck,

  Sunday December 02 2001 03:20, CBFalconer wrote to Steve:

 C> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>

 C> "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.

 C> Slight improvement (note md command):

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

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

 C> --
 C> Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@XXXXworldnet.att.net)
 C>    Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
 C>    (Remove "XXXX" from reply address. yahoo works unmodified)
 C>    mailto:uce@ftc.gov  (for spambots to harvest)

This is all very similar to what Ralf Brinkmann of 2:244/2122
posted on June 21st 1999 at 22:00 to Greg Chapman as
TOUCHDIR.BTM.....

Tom Hall stated: "Congratulations -- your computer clock is now
..00001 seconds slow..... :-)"

Do you know of a method to factor in the .00001 seconds to
maintain the correct clock time?

           Cheers ... Gerald

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