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Kilmatead
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Tennessee Williams Never Used Windows Explorer...

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Amusingly, Windows Explorer seems to be allergic to the birth of DOS, at least as far as timestamps are concerned. In case you're bored, incapacitated, inebriated, incarcerated or just lost in the world looking for a girl to save your soul, if you select a file and change one of its timestamps to 01-January-1980 00:00:00 using Actions -> Change Attributes <Shift+F12>...

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...as far as windows explorer is concerned, that particular timestamp will "vanish", as File -> Properties <F12> will display:

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This will happen with Created, Accessed, or Modified stamps individually on any file or folder so changed. Even more obscure is that the timestamp will also disappear from the listview column within Explorer itself - it'll just be blank. :shrug:

This only happens in explorer - obviously there's nothing wrong with the timestamp itself, and any other file-manager/utility will be able to read/display the date just fine.

Other than 01-Jan-80 being the birth of DOS and the earliest date a timestamp can have under FAT filesystems (this happens on NTFS), I can find no explanation for this Bermuda Triangle "feature". :D

Remember: you must be bored, incapacitated, inebriated, incarcerated or just lost in the world looking for a girl to save your soul for this to work. If you are none of those things, then you're just a muggle trudging through the Matrix addicted to the illusions of life. :wink:
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Have you considered reporting this weirdness to Microsoft? (Although I'm convinced that they'll drop the Explorer with Windows 9 and only ship some full-screen one-pane one-file-at-a-time thingy or something.)
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Tuxman wrote:Have you considered reporting this weirdness to Microsoft?
Report to... Microsoft?

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Why would anyone do such a thing? That's like complaining to a horse that it's raining. The horse will just give you its age-old and thus-perfected "So what?" look with one eye cocked. They use that for everything (birthday parties, bat mitzvahs, bug reports, etc), and it's quite convincing.
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Microsoft is the one to fix such issues, a horse is not.
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that is kinda wacky

I did not realize that FAT timestamps only went back to Jan 1, 1980...
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