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Try touch (two versions):<br />
<a href="http://www.helge.mynetcologne.de/touch/" rel="ugc">http://www.helge.mynetcologne.de/touch/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tburke.net/info/misc/touch.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.tburke.net/info/misc/touch.htm</a><br />

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Try touch (two versions):
http://www.helge.mynetcologne.de/touch/ [http://www.helge.mynetcologne.de/touch/]
http://www.tburke.net/info/misc/touch.htm [http://www.tburke.net/info/misc/touch.htm]


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Hmmm, the first doesn't appear to have the ability to specifically set a date in the past, only update the file's modified date to the current. &nbsp;The latter doesn't work for me. &nbsp;When I try to run it in Win2000 DOS prompt, I get the error &quot;touch.exe is not a valid Win32 application.&quot;
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Hmmm, the first doesn't appear to have the ability to specifically set a date in the past, only update the file's modified date to the current.  The latter doesn't work for me.  When I try to run it in Win2000 DOS prompt, I get the error "touch.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

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Thanks, I've had a look at this.<br />
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I suuppose I also should have mentioned that it needs to be fully compliant with x64 OS as well and I'm not exaclty sure whether a native x64 updater is needed or whether a 32bit one will work?<br />
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I also need to be careful as I believe there have been some file/folder changes in Win 7 which these older utils might not be expecting?
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Thanks, I've had a look at this.

I suuppose I also should have mentioned that it needs to be fully compliant with x64 OS as well and I'm not exaclty sure whether a native x64 updater is needed or whether a 32bit one will work?

I also need to be careful as I believe there have been some file/folder changes in Win 7 which these older utils might not be expecting?

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I'm looking for a free and simple command line utility for DOS that will allow me to change the last modified date of a file. &nbsp;I used to have a program back in the day that could do this, but I've since lost it.<br />
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I need it for testing an app I wrote that works with files older than a certain date.<br />
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Thank you,<br />
Daniel
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I'm looking for a free and simple command line utility for DOS that will allow me to change the last modified date of a file.  I used to have a program back in the day that could do this, but I've since lost it.

I need it for testing an app I wrote that works with files older than a certain date.

Thank you,
Daniel

Change a file date/[time] stamp?

Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) was an operating system for x86-based personal computers, and traces of it are still found in the Windows operating system. DOS is still used in some embedded systems and for certain legacy 16-bit networks.