Command line tool to change file creation date?

I want to be able to change a file's creation date attribute from the command
line.

I know there are tools out there to do this, but they seem to be shareware
(e.g. DirDate).

I can't imagine that there isn't a way to do this natively in Vista,
though... so is there? Can't be an uncommon thing to want to do as a Vista
admin.

Thanks,

Mike

Mike

This is freeware and works very well on Vista.

Look at the 'Touch' command in the Win32 Console ToolBox 1.0.

Steve Miller's Applications Page:
http://www.stevemiller.net/apps/


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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Mike B" <MikeB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:55D852D2-8E2C-4AAA-9BB6-F8201B4B17B0@microsoft.com...
>I want to be able to change a file's creation date attribute from the
>command
> line.
>
> I know there are tools out there to do this, but they seem to be shareware
> (e.g. DirDate).
>
> I can't imagine that there isn't a way to do this natively in Vista,
> though... so is there? Can't be an uncommon thing to want to do as a
> Vista
> admin.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>

Thanks, Ronnie. It's a shame that the 'Touch' command works only with
US-format dates, and that there isn't a simple switch you can use to change
the behaviour, but at the price this guy is charging I can't complain ;-)

The only reason this bothers me slightly is that I'm getting my dates from a
cataloging program that output non-US-format dates, so I will need to write a
line or two of VBS code to convert from US to non-US format before sending
them to 'Touch'... being a VBS novice I'm heading from google for some help...

Thanks,

Mike


"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

> Mike
>
> This is freeware and works very well on Vista.
>
> Look at the 'Touch' command in the Win32 Console ToolBox 1.0.
>
> Steve Miller's Applications Page:
> http://www.stevemiller.net/apps/
>
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Mike B" <MikeB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:55D852D2-8E2C-4AAA-9BB6-F8201B4B17B0@microsoft.com...
> >I want to be able to change a file's creation date attribute from the
> >command
> > line.
> >
> > I know there are tools out there to do this, but they seem to be shareware
> > (e.g. DirDate).
> >
> > I can't imagine that there isn't a way to do this natively in Vista,
> > though... so is there? Can't be an uncommon thing to want to do as a
> > Vista
> > admin.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
>