On 2/27/05 10:18 PM, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 2/27/05 9:59 PM, "Jeffrey Berman" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> The why doesn't matter. Get the dev tools and you can use SetFile to
>>> accomplish this.
>>
>> The 'SetFile' command does let you change the file creation date. However,
>> I've discovered that a 12 AM number needs to be set with "00:mm" time
>> notation. For example,
>>
>> SetFile -d "02/27/2005 12:01 AM" testfile
>>
>> sets the creation date of file "testfile" to 12:01 *PM*. However, the
>> following command:
>>
>> SetFile -d "02/27/2005 00:01 AM" testfile
>>
>> sets the creation date to the desired 12:01 AM time.
>
> Well, yes, in 24 hour time, that's right. Midnight is 00:00 and noon is
> 12:00, hence the term, "Zero Hundred Hours" for midnight.
John:
You're correct that in 24-hour time, it would be "00" hours for midnight.
But 24-hour clock notation does not use "AM/PM". So a time of "00:01" in
24-hour time should equal the time of "12:01 AM" using 12-hour notation.
However, when using the SetFile command, this does not seem to be the case.
For example:
SetFile -d "02/27/2005 00:01" testfile
sets the creation time of the file "testfile" to 12:01 AM.
However, the command:
SetFile -d "02/27/2005 12:01 AM" testfile
sets the creation time of the file "testfile" to 12:01 *PM*.
The hour value with AM/PM notation seems to work fine in SetFile for all
hours except midnight.
-Jeffrey Berman
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