> How do you go about changing the created or modified date of a file?

> I have about 16,000 HTML docs that I'd like to change the created date
> based on a date string in the document itself. For instance, I would
> search the document for the string "Created on:", then take the value
> after that string and plug into a script that will modify the Create
> Date for the doc. This is for use in a search engine on a CD-ROM, so
> that the search results show the correct date.

> I have several formats to work with (i.e. "May 21,1999 at 19:23" or
> "02/01/2000 - 9:32PM"), so I'll have to do them in groups based on the
> date format.

> I have some experience with LotusScript (no flames please), which is
> basically the same language. But I'm not even sure where or how to run
> the VB.

> Is this even possible?

> I've seen plenty of shareware programs that will let you change the file
> dates, but no raw code that will let me cusomize it. Thanks.

> Mark,

> Check out the "Error Handling" thread posted on 2/21/2001. Michael Harris
> added a nice way to re-stamp a modified date on files for a script I made.
> (included in that thread).

> Cheers,
> Chris

> > How do you go about changing the created or modified date of a file?

> > I have about 16,000 HTML docs that I'd like to change the created date
> > based on a date string in the document itself. For instance, I would
> > search the document for the string "Created on:", then take the value
> > after that string and plug into a script that will modify the Create
> > Date for the doc. This is for use in a search engine on a CD-ROM, so
> > that the search results show the correct date.

> > I have several formats to work with (i.e. "May 21,1999 at 19:23" or
> > "02/01/2000 - 9:32PM"), so I'll have to do them in groups based on the
> > date format.

> > I have some experience with LotusScript (no flames please), which is
> > basically the same language. But I'm not even sure where or how to run
> > the VB.

> > Is this even possible?

> > I've seen plenty of shareware programs that will let you change the file
> > dates, but no raw code that will let me cusomize it. Thanks.

> The DOS Copy command will allow you to change a file's creation date. Say
> that you have a file called c:\test.txt and you want to change the creation
> date to December 1, 1999. You would issue the following commands at the
> command prompt.

> date 12/1/1999
> copy/b/y c:\test.txt+,,

> It should be fairly easy to process your HTML files using the FSO, extract
> the date string out and do something like the above by using WScript.Shell
> to run the Date and Copy commands, which by the way are internal commands
> which have to run via %comspec%. Just be sure to change the date back
> afterwards to avoid strange problems with your apps and to never run the
> procedure while other date-sensitive apps are running.