Re: Change a File's Creation Date (OS 9.1)
Re: Change a File's Creation Date (OS 9.1)
- Subject: Re: Change a File's Creation Date (OS 9.1)
- From: "Bob.Kalbaugh" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:51:55 -0500
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> At 10:27 AM -0700 26/08/01, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> It's cheating.
strongly agree.
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on 8/26/01 1:17 PM, Bill Briggs at email@hidden wrote:>
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Hmmmm. Depends on the context. (Wouldn't you lie to save your
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friends life/leg/arm from a crazy person?) If you're doing it to try
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and pass off a lie to your prof (me, for example) so you escape some
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penalty for goofing off and not doing your work, then you're cheating
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(but it won't work, as you'll read below).
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On the other hand, if your dealings are with someone like the IRS,
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where the playing field is anything but level, and it's going to save
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your butt in a case of penalties for late payment, then I'll change
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the dates for you myself. They're so Draconian and have the rules all
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bent in their favour that one needs some tools to help even out the
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balance.
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Agree, but it's still cheating.
I'll admit, I once toyed with the idea of changing the creation date of a
file as an ill attempt to cover for a missed deadline. Ooops, did I say
missed deadline? I 've never missed a deadline! Believe me, I'm not lying.
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>> on 8/26/01 12:54 PM, John W Baxter at email@hidden wrote:
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>> Finder's scripting considers creation date to be read only.
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>> Which makes sense, annoying though it may be from time to time.
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>> The file was created at noon last Sunday (or whenever). Changing
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>> the creation date doesn't change that fact, merely hides it. Of course, if
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>> the Mac's clock was in 1904 at the time, not being able to "fix" the
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>> creation dates is unhandy.
As John says, "it merely hides it."
Won't disk and file repair utilities catch and offer to fix these files? IE:
Norton Utilities and BAD creation dates. And what I mean is files that have
an altered creation date, not files that were created in 1904 as a result of
someone's computer clock being off. I think it would be hard to keep track
of files with modified creation dates if one was to alter more than a few
and you'd have to instruct Norton's (or whatever program) NOT to fix them.
And also, I'd be more concerned about file corruption. I don't know. Does
altering the creation date of a file lead to possible file corruption in any
way? Just curious.
_bob.kalbaugh