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Sometimes you need to modify the "modified" or "created" date of a file.
Terminal offers a way to do this with the "touch" command.
For this we need to write the date and time in a specific format:
YYYYMMDDhhmm
Where the characters need to be replaced with:
YYYY — Year in 4 digits MM — Mont in 2 digits (01 to 12) DD — Day of the month, in 2 digits, from 01 to 31 hh — Hour of the day, in 2 digits, 24 hour notation, from 00 to 23 mm — Minutes, in 2 digits, from 00 to 59
To change the modified date:
touch -mt 202103091446 MyFile
This will change the modified date of "MyFile" to 2021, March 9th, 14:46 (or 2:46 PM).
To change the created date:
touch -t 202103091446 MyFile
This will change the creation date of "MyFile" to 2021, March 9th, 14:46 (or 2:46 PM).
