Thanks so much Eric. Though changing the create date could be manipulated for misleading purposes in certain shared-responsibility situations, it will be occasionally very helpful in cases like mine.
Cheers! On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 10:57:27 PM UTC-5, Eric Shulman wrote: > > On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 4:30:49 PM UTC-8, springer wrote: >> >> If I happen to create a tiddler in TW5 while timestamps are off, the >> tiddler ends up without a create date. Once I've created it, it seems TW5 >> won't even back-fill the create date to coincide with the first recognized >> modification date (once timestamps are back on). So the only way I've found >> to give it a create date is to clone it and delete the original. That works >> fine if I realize right away, but gives misleading results if I catch it >> significantly later. >> > I do see these reasons not to make these fields easily modifiable (as they >> were in TWC), but then there ought to be more options... > > > Here's a little trick to changing the "created" date on an existing > tiddler: > > 1) edit the desired tiddler > 2) in the "add a new field" controls, enter "created" in the "field name" > input (even though the field already exists!) > 3) in the corresponding "field value" input, enter the desired date using > format "YYYYMMDDhhmmssxxx" (i.e., a 17 digit number) > > notes: > * if you are only concerned with the date (but not the time), you can > enter a value using "YYYYMMDD" and the remaining digits will default to > zeros. > * the date number uses UTC time zone, not the local time zone. > > enjoy, > -e > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/bfbead9c-23dd-4434-871a-1a20ada29a0f%40googlegroups.com.
