On 27 October 2014 18:57, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk > wrote:
> Rik van Kekem wrote: > >> Maybe it's just me but what's the use of "Date modified" for a folder? >> It *does not* (like TS expects) reflect the date of the last file >> *changed* in the folder. Only when files are removed or added the "Date >> modified" of the folder changes. If you also want the time of the last >> changes in the folder you would need to loop through all the files. >> > > That of course is a good point, but if [whoever asked the question] was > writing an archiver or a file transfer program then his users would assume > that it should (i.e. would be reasonably expected to, irrespective of > documentation etc.) preserve all the POSIX timestamps, even if their > meaning was counter-intuitive. Thanks for all of everyones input regarding this. It looks like the solution that I am going to have to use is to scan all of the files within the folder and work out new latest modified file from that. Thanks again Richard
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