[pmwiki-users] Adding ctime=0

[Peter Kay]

It might not hurt to have an automatic import of flat text files into
PMWiki. E.g., read ctime from the last touched date and if or when it's
changed update to full metadata.
I have run into that before as well, and used a command line perl script or
something to update my files' headers, but that's not practical for
everyone.
--Peter

On Tue, Feb 4, 2025, 6:13 a.m. Martin Cuno <martin.cuno at posteo.de> wrote:

> Hello everyone, a small thing:
>
> I have almost 10,000 files in one of my PmWikis. Some of them are from
> ancient sources, imported as flat files, and that's why the "ctime="
> information is missing here.
>
> Sometimes this bothers me, because I have info fields like: "This file was
> created on ... and last modified on .... If ctime doesn't exist, today's
> date is used. Maybe I could change that with an "if" condition. But I would
> prefer to add that to the files, namely as "ctime=0". Then it says "January
> 1, 1970" and everyone knows. I like my files to be "in order".
>
> I'm not currently able to get this to work with external tools. So: Since
> PmWiki writes information to the raw file format when saving anyway,
> couldn't it add this information as well?
>
> If it's not of general interest (candidate for the core), I'm happy to use
> a small code snippet.
>
> Thanks! Martin from Siegen, Germany
>
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