Is there some way to change the time/date stamp by a fixed increment (i.e. “What it is now plus two hours”) rather than change it to an absolute date?

thanks Deb

Quick question

There are many ways to change the CREATED date for a file, so you will have created, modified, last accessed and even last printed date.

This problem is:

When you open the word document and you click on “file” and then “properties” this will open the properties tab, when you click on the “statistics” tab button, it still show the original created date ….

How do one change THAT date on a document ???

eXpress Timestamp Toucher works great for me.

The command line syntax can be obtained after compiling by running it as “touch -help”

As a side benefit, for the msi building script I was writing, I had files from multiple roots that I wanted to set to the exact same time. The following batch file script did that:

rem get the current time from touch
for /f “delims=” %%v in (’touch.exe’) do set NOW=%%v

ECHO filetime is %NOW%
touch files %NOW%
touch XCAB %NOW%
touch pmfiles %NOW%

Here is the code. To use it, create a new project in visual studio of type C# console application with the name “touch”, and then cut and past the following replacing the contents of the progam.cs file it creates. C# is way cool for this, and makes it trivial to specify recursive, different filespecs etc.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

namespace touch
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;

if (args.Length == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine(String.Format(”\”{0}\”", dt.ToString()));
return;
}

if (args[0].Contains(”?”) || args[0].Contains(”help”))
{
Console.WriteLine(”touch usage: \r\n touch -> no arguments returns current date time\r\ntouch path -> sets all files (recursively) under path to current time\r\ntouch sets all files in path to where time is any time format parseable”);
return;
}

if (args.Length > 1)
{
DateTime.Parse(args[1]);
}

String FileSpec = args[0];

DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(FileSpec);

FileInfo [] fi = di.GetFiles(”*.*”, SearchOption.AllDirectories);

foreach (FileInfo file in fi)
{
file.CreationTime = dt;
file.LastAccessTime = dt;
file.LastWriteTime = dt;
}

Console.WriteLine(String.Format(”Changed File Time on {0} files”, fi.Length));
}
}
}