Hi,

I'm looking for a script to change the date/time properties of (a list of)directories with the date of the oldest (or newest) file in these directories.
Can anyone help?

Regards,

Wim Venema

You can write a script around the touch command line tool:
Touch.exe: Set the timestamp of files to the current time on Windows systems

The easiest way to do this would be to incorporate it into a batch script, using for, dir (ordered), date and time (to set date/time before calling touch), and finally touch the directory with the first result from the ordered dir output.

Alternatively, you can use the Windows API/.NET command:
SetFileTime
Setting a folder's date and time. - CodeGuru Forums

Ax

I suppose you could shell out to good old dos, run a DIR command, ordered by /D date and then send the output to a file and read that file in VB......

mind you, you could probably do that these days using vbs, instead of using 1980's/90's style dos commands