Re: [Hampshire] Changing file modification timestamp

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Author: Samuel Penn
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Changing file modification timestamp
On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:49, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been importing some photos into F-spot. It uses EXIF timestamp to sort
> photos, but I have some images that are in PNG format. As far as I know,
> PNG doesn't support EXIF tags. So F-spot falls back on the modification
> timestamp of the image as the method of working out where it should be in
> the timeline. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way of changing
> either this behaviour or the date it associates with a photo.
>
> So I'd like to adjust the modification timestamp of some files before I
> import them. Can this be done, and if so how? I'm using ReiserFS if it
> matters.


touch should do the trick. See the man page for all the options.

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