Sometimes you can be real picky like me about timestamps of files, for example, during my wedding we had a few digital cameras, and one of the cameras had its internal clock 4 hours behind. So what better way for a lazy guy like you to change timestamps than writing a short python script to fix the problem.
I wrote this script on the same folder where the pictures with the lagged modification times existed:
import os
import time
from stat import *
#returns a list of all the files on the current directory
files = os.listdir('.')
for f in files:
#my folder has some jpegs and raw images
if f.lower().endswith('jpg') or f.lower().endswith('crw'):
st = os.stat(f)
atime = st[ST_ATIME] #access time
mtime = st[ST_MTIME] #modification time
new_mtime = mtime + (4*3600) #new modification time
#modify the file timestamp
os.utime(f,(atime,new_mtime))
Very nice, I like
Hi!
I am new to Python coding, and I trying to return the time stamps of all files in a certain folder. I was hoping to export these results (filename with corresponding saved time) to excel. Can you please help!!!
Here:
>>> for file in os.listdir(‘.’):
… print os.stat(file)
…
posix.stat_result(st_mode=16873, st_ino=556850L, st_dev=234881026L, st_nlink=4, st_uid=501, st_gid=501, st_size=136L, st_atime=1319080694, st_mtime=1303602087, st_ctime=1303602087)
posix.stat_result(st_mode=16893, st_ino=67639515L, st_dev=234881026L, st_nlink=3, st_uid=501, st_gid=501, st_size=102L, st_atime=1328343414, st_mtime=1309571254, st_ctime=1309571254)
posix.stat_result(st_mode=16877, st_ino=556852L, st_dev=234881026L, st_nlink=14, st_uid=501, st_gid=501, st_size=476L, st_atime=1328343414, st_mtime=1323729831, st_ctime=1323729831)
posix.stat_result(st_mode=33152, st_ino=556901L, st_dev=234881026L, st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=501, st_size=630L, st_atime=1326851190, st_mtime=1227840558, st_ctime=1299730310)
posix.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=556902L, st_dev=234881026L, st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=501, st_size=43L, st_atime=1326851190, st_mtime=1227824842, st_ctime=1299730310)
posix.stat_result(st_mode=16877, st_ino=556824L, st_dev=234881026L, st_nlink=2, st_uid=501, st_gid=501, st_size=68L, st_atime=1328343414, st_mtime=1298518034, st_ctime=1299730268)
posix.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=556903L, st_dev=234881026L, st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=501, st_size=176L, st_atime=1326851190, st_mtime=1289321134, st_ctime=1299730310)
Using os.stat(file_path) you will get all the timestamps about the file (access time, modification time,etc)
you can then use that output as you please, for example, writing on your excel file.
Thanks! Just what I was looking for!