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Accurate File Dates for Kiefer's Archives

Behold, actual data from this webserver:

{
    ...,

    "test.md": {},
    "test.txt": {
        "1589": {
            "secs": 1577474298.0,
            "text": "Fri Dec 27 13:18:18 2019"
        }
    },
    "tinyurl.comarkpen.txt": {
        "61": {
            "secs": 1463550588.0,
            "text": "Wed May 18 00:49:48 2016"
        }
    },
    ...
}

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