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(Aug-14-2020, 10:21 PM)bowlofred Wrote: Makes no sense to me. Now that you're using getmtime(), it should be grabbing the modification date, not the creation date. But if it's working, that's good...
JohnVogel General Coding Help 14 6,555 Aug-17-2020, 03:33 PM
    Thread: Getting Correct Creation Time
Post: RE: Getting Correct Creation Time

(Aug-14-2020, 08:04 PM)bowlofred Wrote: The top of the explorer window that shows the title for the column with the times. Does it say "creation time" or something else? Explorer can show times th...
JohnVogel General Coding Help 14 6,555 Aug-14-2020, 09:30 PM
    Thread: Getting Correct Creation Time
Post: RE: Getting Correct Creation Time

(Aug-14-2020, 06:26 PM)bowlofred Wrote: Can you show the column header from explorer? Man, I'm gonna expose my noob-ness here. What's a "column header"? I probably know what it is but have never h...
JohnVogel General Coding Help 14 6,555 Aug-14-2020, 06:45 PM
    Thread: Getting Correct Creation Time
Post: RE: Getting Correct Creation Time

(Aug-12-2020, 09:00 PM)bowlofred Wrote: Main thing for me, does the os.path.getctime() value agree with dir /t:c? Here's what I get when I run dir /t:c: [Image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-LLa...
JohnVogel General Coding Help 14 6,555 Aug-14-2020, 05:49 PM
    Thread: Getting Correct Creation Time
Post: RE: Getting Correct Creation Time

(Aug-12-2020, 09:00 PM)bowlofred Wrote: When you put it on windows, you "created" the file for the first time. And explorer should show that. Does it really show an earlier time in the Created col...
JohnVogel General Coding Help 14 6,555 Aug-14-2020, 04:06 PM
    Thread: Getting Correct Creation Time
Post: RE: Getting Correct Creation Time

(Aug-11-2020, 04:04 AM)bowlofred Wrote: Now that I'm back near my windows machine, I can't reproduce this. I'm getting the same value for ctime as I do in explorer for creation time. The dates a...
JohnVogel General Coding Help 14 6,555 Aug-12-2020, 08:17 PM
    Thread: Getting Correct Creation Time
Post: RE: Getting Correct Creation Time

(Aug-10-2020, 05:27 PM)bowlofred Wrote: Just to confirm, you're running this on windows only? You don't have a mac laptop or trying to use something like cygwin or WSL? Yes, it's WIN 10 (Aug-10-2...
JohnVogel General Coding Help 14 6,555 Aug-10-2020, 09:41 PM
    Thread: Getting Correct Creation Time
Post: Getting Correct Creation Time

Hey, guys, Very much a beginner at coding. I was trying to rename image files by extracting their creation date using the "os.path.getctime(path)" method, but I've run into a snag. Using Windows....
JohnVogel General Coding Help 14 6,555 Aug-10-2020, 04:51 PM

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