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Accurate File Dates for Kiefer's Archives

Behold, actual data from this webserver:

{
    ...,

    "Dead Ones Assassin.txt": {
        "1103": {
            "secs": 1468444439.0,
            "text": "Wed Jul 13 16:13:59 2016"
        }
    },
    "Dealing with Discoloured Assets.md": {
        "4477": {
            "secs": 1634446583.4644916,
            "text": "Sat Oct 16 23:56:23 2021"
        }
    },
    "December_Challenge": {
        "9766": {
            "secs": 1606888491.993815,
            "text": "Tue Dec  1 23:54:51 2020"
        }
    },
    ...
}

I have a lot of files (what?) and I like to know how old things are.

It's personally important to me that I keep archives, as I've been making things since I was little and have moved and duplicated stuff from machine to machine over the years.

There's two ways I do this. One is to index earliest files ages found by file name, which is what I do for my notes and articles, as those rarely change file names (and a renamed version is generally renamed for a reason, ie. it's distinct enough to warrant renaming).

For non-text file types or for larger and older archives where there are more cases where the same file has been used in multiple places with different names, I have an open source notebook I use which you can try out for yourself!

–Kiefer