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Posted: **25 Jan 2013 17:42**

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.

Posted: **25 Jan 2013 18:10**

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;
  }

Posted: **25 Jan 2013 23:14**

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}.

Posted: **25 Jan 2013 23:42**

Marco wrote: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.

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