Set date/time attributes?

[kraigyb]

You can get the file time/date attributes of files, but there's no built-in function to set them. Anyone know of a shell function or dll that could be used to set time and date attributes of files and folders?

Thanks much,
craig booth

[longedge]

File.SetAttributes action doesn't cover time & date but neither does the DOS attrib command. You could always open and then close a file to change the 'last accessed' property of the file. Perhaps do a file copy then delete and rename to the original name to set the date created (not sure if that would work??).

Don't know if Attribute Changer which acts as a shell extension would be any good to you.

[kraigyb]

Thanks longedge, but I was looking for a more direct way to modify the file and folder date/times. I've used some of the 3rd party utilities to change the attributes, which is the same functionality I'd like to include in one of my AMS apps.

After a little research, it looks theres a 'SetFileTime' function in kernel32.dll. I haven't had any luck calling it.

I also came across the LuaFileSystem library (www.keplerproject.org), which appears to include a function to modify the access and modification times of a file.

Does anyone have any experience calling kernel32, lfs, or any oher means of changing file attributes?