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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