Accurate File Dates for Kiefer's Archives
Behold, actual data from this webserver:
{
...,
"Grey Goo Ideas.txt": {
"5633": {
"secs": 1468406063.0,
"text": "Wed Jul 13 05:34:23 2016"
}
},
"Grey Goo is Great Game Design.md": {
"3935": {
"secs": 1634528654.894329,
"text": "Sun Oct 17 22:44:14 2021"
}
},
"Grid.md": {
"8218": {
"secs": 1607133895.0308087,
"text": "Fri Dec 4 20:04:55 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