Title: How to touch a file with a specified date/time
Question: How do I change the date & time of a file specified as a string?
Answer:
Often A file's time is set to represent a version number.
For example the datetime may be January 27, 2000 1:03:00AM
to represent version 1 patch 3.
This unit presents a procedure which takes two parameters,
A file path/name specified as a string and a DateTime.
The specified file's date & time will be changed to match
the DateTime specified.
unit Fileutil;
interface
uses System, SysUtils;
{To Change the Date/Time of a file}
procedure TouchFile(FileName: string; Date: TDateTime);
implementation
procedure TouchFile(FileName: string; Date: TDateTime);
var
TheFile: File;
begin
AssignFile(TheFile, FileName);
Reset(TheFile);
FileSetDate( TFileRec(TheFile).Handle,
DateTimeToFileDate(Date));
Close(TheFile);
end;
end.