On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Roland Huettmann > I find it VERY convenient since the actual file creation > date is not of importance. The content of the file is important. For > example, a Word document has a date of the Content (a letter for example, > or a contract). Why should this not be reflected in a *persistent* date of > the file itself?
I don't understand. The detailed files gives you: creation date & time last modified date & time last accessed date & time last back up date & time You start writing email and send it today. It's date (forgetting time) is the same as the creation and modification date. You start writing a contract today and finish it tomorrow. It's date is the same as it's last modified date. You can read any of those files multiple times at any later date and it doesn't change their creation or last modified dates. In you go back into the contract and modify it at a later day, then the amended contract should be re-dated and it should match the last modified date. To create a document today, and in it's content date it last week (or next week) and then use a program to change it's electronic creation date to match; or to go into a completed contract a some much later date, and modify it and then use a program to electronically back date it's modification date all seems fraudulent to me. If there is some other date that is extremely important to the file then surely this would be dealt with using a sensible storing and naming convention. i.e. if you were writing someone's biography you might have folders for each year and name the files with a prefix mmdd month and day format to sort them chronologically. For contracts, after a contract is signed it's scanned so this scanned document could be named 'ACME contract signed yyyymmdd' All relevant dates are then easily accessible via the files creation date, modification date and full path name. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
