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v12.40.0105 - 2013-05-14 20:01
+ Menu Tools | Customize List | Date Column Format: Added toggle
"Show Times in UTC". Tick it to show all filetimes as UTC, i.e.
timezone-independent as they are internally stored under NTFS.
Untick it to show filetimes auto-converted to the local timezone
(as defined in Windows settings), which is the factory default and
the usual way filetimes are shown in file managers and similar
applications.
UTC filetimes are easily recognizable by the suffixed "Z", which
is the official way to mark UTC times according to ISO 8601.
Note that not only the file list, but also the Properties tab and
all sorts of Reports support showing UTC times and hence are
affected by this setting.
Tip: The command is also available in the right-click menu of any
of the Date columns in the file list.
XYplorer is AFAIK the only file manager that can do this trick.
Note: The tweak ZuluFileTimes is hereby raised to UI level.
+ Time Stamping and Find Files by Date now support the ISO 8601
format for time offsets from UTC.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_offsets_from_UTC
The following general formats are recognized (the ":SS" component
is optional).
YYYY-MM-DD HH:NN:SS±02:00
YYYY-MM-DD HH:NN:SS±0200 'no ":"
YYYY-MM-DD HH:NN:SS±02 'hours only
To refer to 10:00 today in Cologne (DST in effect), you can use
this time string anywhere in the world:
2013-05-14 10:00:00+02:00
Independently of your current time zone it is resolved to
2013-05-14 08:00:00+00:00
which is equivalent to e.g. the following time strings:
2013-05-14 08:00:00Z
2013-05-14 03:00:00-05
2013-05-13 23:00:00-0900
2013-05-13 20:00:00-12:00
So, for example, to find all files modified in Cologne today
between 16:00 and 17:00 Cologne local time (DST in effect), you
can use these time strings, regardless of the time zone of your
current host system:
Between: 2013-05-14 16:00:00+02
And: 2013-05-14 17:00:00+02
The +02 means: Cologne (DST in effect) is 2 hours later than UTC.
You will get the same search results if you express the times for
Honolulu...
Between: 2013-05-14 04:00:00-10
And: 2013-05-14 05:00:00-10
... or for Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea):
Between: 2013-05-15 00:00:00+10
And: 2013-05-15 01:00:00+10
In the same fashion you can for example timestamp a file to
midnight in Tokyo using this time string:
2013-05-15 00:00:00+09
Note that BETA versions are work in progress and might contain fresh bugs. You have been warned.
It's a good idea to backup your complete XYplorer settings (menu File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder...)
before running a new BETA version. This will also help in fixing any fresh bugs.