Setting the date of a document
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From: JF Mezei on 22 Jan 2010 21:35 I have to download a number of documents from the web. Most are PDFs, except for one telco which insists on submitting a .ZIP file containing a .DOC file. I have to file these documents by the name of the organisation that submitted them, and the date they were submitted (there are various deadlines for submissions). Is there a way to set the date of a document to an arbritary one (aka: a deadline date. This way, I could sort documents by date (seeing all submissions made for such and such a deadline, or by organisation.
From: J.J. O'Shea on 22 Jan 2010 21:55 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:35:54 -0500, JF Mezei wrote (in article <00d2ed89$0$1596$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>): > I have to download a number of documents from the web. Most are PDFs, > except for one telco which insists on submitting a .ZIP file containing > a .DOC file. > > I have to file these documents by the name of the organisation that > submitted them, and the date they were submitted (there are various > deadlines for submissions). > > Is there a way to set the date of a document to an arbritary one (aka: a > deadline date. > > This way, I could sort documents by date (seeing all submissions made > for such and such a deadline, or by organisation. Change the system clock the date in question, do a save as, change the clock back. -- email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
From: Tom Stiller on 22 Jan 2010 22:36 In article <00d2ed89$0$1596$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > I have to download a number of documents from the web. Most are PDFs, > except for one telco which insists on submitting a .ZIP file containing > a .DOC file. > > I have to file these documents by the name of the organisation that > submitted them, and the date they were submitted (there are various > deadlines for submissions). > > Is there a way to set the date of a document to an arbritary one (aka: a > deadline date. > > This way, I could sort documents by date (seeing all submissions made > for such and such a deadline, or by organisation. In the Terminal.app enter: /usr/bin/SetFile for short help on setting either the creation and/or modification date(s). -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: Richard Maine on 22 Jan 2010 22:59 J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:35:54 -0500, JF Mezei wrote > (in article <00d2ed89$0$1596$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>): > > > I have to download a number of documents from the web. Most are PDFs, > > except for one telco which insists on submitting a .ZIP file containing > > a .DOC file. .... > > Is there a way to set the date of a document to an arbritary one (aka: a > > deadline date. .... > Change the system clock the date in question, do a save as, change the clock > back. That is, of course, application dependent. In particular, it isn't likely to work very well for the above-mentioned pdf files unless one has a suitable pdf editor program. It also has the disadvantage of changing the files so that you now have a modified version that you created instead of an actual copy of the original. In many contexts, that's a no-no. The SetFile method mentioned by Tom is more general in that it doesn't depend on the particular application. It also doesn't change the file contents. I wouldn't tend to depend on that for long-term purposes, though. Too many ways that the dates might later get changed. I'd probably do something like store the files in suitably-named directories. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Don Bruder on 22 Jan 2010 23:27
In article <tom_stiller-B9FFD9.22361422012010(a)news.individual.net>, Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > In article <00d2ed89$0$1596$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, > JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > > > I have to download a number of documents from the web. Most are PDFs, > > except for one telco which insists on submitting a .ZIP file containing > > a .DOC file. > > > > I have to file these documents by the name of the organisation that > > submitted them, and the date they were submitted (there are various > > deadlines for submissions). > > > > Is there a way to set the date of a document to an arbritary one (aka: a > > deadline date. > > > > This way, I could sort documents by date (seeing all submissions made > > for such and such a deadline, or by organisation. > > In the Terminal.app enter: > /usr/bin/SetFile > > for short help on setting either the creation and/or modification > date(s). Wouldn't "touch <insert filename here>" from the CL do it? Oh, wait - he wants to set an arbitrary date rather than "now". D'oh! Never mind! -- Email shown is deceased. If you would like to contact me by email, please post something that makes it obvious in this or another group you see me posting in with a "how to contact you" address, and I'll get back to you. |