Proof of concept of timestamping — need some help...

[Marco]

Goal: selecting a bunch of files and, for each of them, setting the three dates to the earliest between written and last modified.

This code "works" provided that all the desired items are visible in the List and there are no additional "interfering" items.

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 while ("1" == "1") {
  timestamp, (compare(<datem>, <datec>, "d") == "1")?<datec>:<datem>;
  sel "+1";
 };

Needless to say, I don't like it
Using property("Write", $file) and the sister property("Create", $file) would allow me to write a foreach loop, however they return UTC times (no good for non-British).
Any idea?

Oh, a trivial

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timestamp, (compare(<datem>, <datec>, "d") == "1")?'<datec>':'<datem>';

doesn't work either.

[serendipity]

How about:

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  $allitems=get("SelectedItemsPathNames", "|");
  foreach($item, $allitems, "|"){
        $datemodified=report("{Modified}",$item);
        $datecreated=report("{Created}",$item);
        timestamp, (compare($datemodified, $datecreated, "d") == "1")?$datecreated:$datemodified,$item;
  }

[Marco]

Thank you serendipity!! That's exactly what I'm looking for. I guess I deserve a RTFM for having overlooked the report() function
Just a little addendum: {Modified} needs a date pattern to work. ISO 8601 comes in handy here, so I use {Modified yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss}.

[serendipity]

Thank you serendipity!! That's exactly what I'm looking for. I guess I deserve a RTFM for having overlooked the report() function
Just a little addendum: {Modified} needs a date pattern to work. ISO 8601 comes in handy here, so I use {Modified yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss}.

Thanks for the addendum, did not know that.