Problem with DIR command

paul1149 December 25, 2012 at 13:08:57

What's the difference between date of creation and original date?

Jeff Root December 26, 2012 at 00:59:33

The terminology is confusing, and I don't think it is consistent, but the command dir /? shows all the switches that can be used with dir, and to my surprise I see that there are three switches for changing the date output: /tc Creation /ta Last Access /tw Last Written Creation date appears to be what you want. "Last Written" is the default, and using /tc I'm getting earlier dates. -- Jeff, in Minneapolis

With original date I mean the date I filled in for a jpg file (with properties/details) . When I use Windows 7 to list the directory with jpg files I see this date. When using doscommand DIR I see another date. Neither using /TA, TW nor TC gives me the wanted result. Is there another way of getting this date in a file I can read. Thanks for your reply.

With original date I mean the date I filled in for a jpg file (with properties/details) . When I use Windows 7 to list the directory with jpg files I see this date. When using doscommand DIR I see another date. Neither using /TA, TW nor TC gives me the wanted result. Is there another way of getting this date in a file I can read. Thanks for your reply.

Jeff Root December 26, 2012 at 08:33:48

It sounds like you are talking about a field in the EXIF data which is stored in the jpg file itself, not in the directory table. You would need a program which reads the EXIF data that you want out of each jpg file. -- Jeff, in Minneapolis

tonysathre December 26, 2012 at 14:03:06

Jeff is correct. You need a utility that can read the EXIF data out of the JPG header. Try this. Tony