Accurate File Dates for Kiefer's Archives
Behold, actual data from this webserver:
{
...,
"Indiscrete.html": {
"34118": {
"secs": 1589674716.9079757,
"text": "Sat May 16 19:18:36 2020"
}
},
"Indiscrete.md": {
"5272": {
"secs": 1589744824.0,
"text": "Sun May 17 14:47:04 2020"
}
},
"Infestation": {
"4096": {
"secs": 1551729979.4590778,
"text": "Mon Mar 4 14:06:19 2019"
}
},
...
}
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