Setting file creation date

[Will Stuyvesant]

'''
Usage:
C:> python newdate.py <filename> <ddmmyyyy>
Guess what happens!
'''

import os
import sys
import time

newdate = sys.argv[2]
d = int(newdate[2:4])
m = int(newdate[:2])
y = int(newdate[4:])
# 12 hours, 1 minute: gives 01:01 PM, odd
t = time.mktime((y, d, m, 12, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0))
os.utime(sys.argv[1], (t, t))


'''
Works like a charm here with Windows XP.  People had problems getting
this functionality in a thread on c.l.p. in 2001.  So maybe this does
not work with Windows NT or 2000.


QOTD

If you don't have the time right now,
will you have redo right time later?
'''