get date to file

[Krynn]

Hello,

I would like to recover the creation date of a file.
I can get the date, but it is in the form of ticks. And I don't know how to convert it.

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put  files((fld "Chemin"), detailed) into field "listing"
set the itemdelimiter to ","
put item 4 of line 1 of field "listing" into TempsCreate

I can get the date with the shell, but as I have to do this for many files, it is too slow.

Do you have any idea how to do this?
thanks

[FourthWorld]

I suspect the slowest part of that is rendering the long file list in a field. If you don't need to display the list use a variable instead. If it's still too slow we can investigate further.

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Not sure what your handler does, But you can convert the ticks to a date. Perhaps in a button script:

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on mouseUp
   get the ticks --returned by your handler
   divide it by 60
   convert it to  date
end mouseUp

"Convert" will not work directly on the ticks. We are changing those to the "seconds" You can convert also to "dateItems" which might give you even more information.

Craig

[Krynn]

"Convert" will not work directly on the ticks. We are changing those to the "seconds" You can convert also to "dateItems" which might give you even more information.

Craig

thank you very much, it works great
It seems so simple.


Time for 119 files:
- with shell: 34 secondes
- with convert date: 0.2 secondes.

[Krynn]

I suspect the slowest part of that is rendering the long file list in a field. If you don't need to display the list use a variable instead. If it's still too slow we can investigate further.

I have about 1000 files.
I already store in a variable.

The problem was the console that displays 1000x is about 1 second per file. that's what slows it down.
but thanks for your feedback

[FourthWorld]

I suspect the slowest part of that is rendering the long file list in a field. If you don't need to display the list use a variable instead. If it's still too slow we can investigate further.

I have about 1000 files.
I already store in a variable.

The problem was the console that displays 1000x is about 1 second per file. that's what slows it down.
but thanks for your feedback

Happy to help. Thanks for confirming that the display rendering was the bottleneck.

[Klaus]

Hi Krynn,

I can get the date, but it is in the form of ticks. And I don't know how to convert it.

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put  files((fld "Chemin"), detailed) into field "listing"
set the itemdelimiter to ","
put item 4 of line 1 of field "listing" into TempsCreate

...

to be precise:
The fourth item in the detailed file list is in SECONDS not ticks!


Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

Krynn.

Hmmm.

If Klaus is correct, then you do not need to convert. If you do, your dates will be rather older.

Craig

[jacque]

Klaus is right, see the dictionary.

[Klaus]

Hi Craig,

If Klaus is correct...

sorry, don't understand!?


Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

Klaus.

It means do you know what you are talking about. I get this all the time.

Craig

[Klaus]

Klaus.

It means do you know what you are talking about. I get this all the time.

Craig