Subj : xtrn/ddfilelister/ddfilelister.js readme.txt revision_history.txt
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 14 2022 09:38:01

  Re: xtrn/ddfilelister/ddfilelister.js readme.txt revision_history.txt
  By: Digital Man to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Wed Apr 13 2022 08:39 pm

 >> DDFileLister: Dates shown in file desriptions when extended
 >> descriptions are enabled.

 DM> Just to make sure you're aware, there are 4 "dates" (and times) associated
 DM> with files: 

 DM> 1. The current date/time when the file was added to the filebase
 DM> (e.g. April-13-2022)
 DM> 2. The file's date/time stamp at the time the file was added to the
 DM> filebase 
 DM> (for old files, this could be 20 or 30 years ago).
 DM> 3. The file's date/time stamp at the time you're viewing the file
 DM> information 
 DM> (if the file has been modified since it was uploaded, this may not match
 DM> #2).
 DM> 4. The date/time that the file was last downloaded (or 0 for "never").

 DM> Date/time #1 is accesible file a file's 'added' property value, while #4
 DM> is available via the 'last_downloaded' property value (probably obvious). 

 DM> Less obvious is that date/time's #2 and #3 are available via the file's
 DM> 'time' property and depending on the directory's "Check for File
 DM> Existence" toggle option, it'll either reflect the *current* date/time
 DM> stamp of the file or it'll reflect the date/time stamp of the file when it
 DM> was uploaded. 

 DM> Yet more potentially interesting dates/times are the newest or oldest time
 DM> stamps of files *within* each archive. I don't extract and track this
 DM> information in the SBBS filebase currently, but am considering it.

My file lister shows the value of the "time" property in the file metadata
objects.  According to the documentation (jsobjs.html), that property represents the file modification date/time.  That was basically my intent, so you'd know when the file was created/modified and know how old it is.

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