Accurate File Dates for Kiefer's Archives
Behold, actual data from this webserver:
{
...,
"Picnic.txt": {
"11379": {
"secs": 1525678124.0,
"text": "Mon May 7 02:28:44 2018"
}
},
"Pilum Playable Demo.md": {
"5319": {
"secs": 1699930780.1738105,
"text": "Mon Nov 13 20:59:40 2023"
}
},
"Pin Kings Totals.txt": {
"2807": {
"secs": 1497078335.0,
"text": "Sat Jun 10 02:05:35 2017"
}
},
...
}
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