Accurate File Dates for Kiefer's Archives
Behold, actual data from this webserver:
{
...,
"Energy Systems.txt": {
"5289": {
"secs": 1468464317.0,
"text": "Wed Jul 13 21:45:17 2016"
}
},
"Entire Text - R_Sisters_Text.md": {
"32542": {
"secs": 1584845611.0207138,
"text": "Sat Mar 21 21:53:31 2020"
}
},
"Environmental Traps Royale.md": {
"1604": {
"secs": 1703619640.0,
"text": "Tue Dec 26 13:40:40 2023"
}
},
...
}
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