Bulk file 'modified' time changer?

[Bee_Jay]

Hi,

After much searching I can't find what I want and wondered if one of you could help.

I am looking for a utility for Windows that will allow me to do the following.

Add 68 minutes to the 'modified' time of a whole bunch of files.

More explanation: I am a pro photographer and my colleague and I shot a wedding together the otehr day but forgot to synchronise the time on our cameras first, as such the photos do not sort correctly...

My camera was 68 minutes behind his and his was correct. So I am looking to add 68 minutes to the 'modified' time of all my files in one go. I can find many utilities that allow me to pick a time to set them all to, but this is more of an 'offset' job.

Anyone know of any freeware?

Joe.

[Plotloss]

Are any of the utilities you have command line based?

If so it would be fairly easy to script a batch file around them to do it.

[Bee_Jay]

No, they are all GUI...

[scorp]

You can set multiple files to the current time by using a programmers tool called "touch". Not sure about setting arbitrary modified times though.

[roadsweeper]

scorp said:

You can set multiple files to the current time by using a programmers tool called "touch". Not sure about setting arbitrary modified times though.

He could change the system clock on his machine to the desired time maybe?

[CommanderJameson]

scorp said:

You can set multiple files to the current time by using a programmers tool called "touch". Not sure about setting arbitrary modified times though.

You can select the time you want to use with 'touch'.

Here's an example:
C:Temp>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 58D5-0ADB

Directory of C:Temp

20/09/2006 13:43 <DIR> .
20/09/2006 13:43 <DIR> ..
20/09/2006 13:43 7 thing.txt
1 File(s) 7 bytes
2 Dir(s) 137,769,623,552 bytes free

C:Temp>touch -t 01011200 thing.txt

C:Temp>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 58D5-0ADB

Directory of C:Temp

20/09/2006 13:43 <DIR> .
20/09/2006 13:43 <DIR> ..
01/01/2006 13:00 7 thing.txt
1 File(s) 7 bytes
2 Dir(s) 137,769,623,552 bytes free

C:Temp>
Never mind the wacky indenting.

[Bee_Jay]

Still doesn't really help me though...

[Plotloss]

You'd need to read in the modified date/time, add 68 minutes to it and then touch with the new date/time

Didnt know you could get a touch for windows...

[Plotloss]

www.programurl.com/dirdate.htm

[Bee_Jay]

Plotloss said:

www.programurl.com/dirdate.htm

Cool, I'll give it a try!

[scorp]

CommanderJameson said:

..

Cool, i guess it depends on the version, the last time i used that was nearly a decade ago.. some old borland version..

[Bee_Jay]

Bee_Jay said:

Plotloss said:

www.programurl.com/dirdate.htm

Cool, I'll give it a try!

Worked a treat - thanks!!!