Are kMDItemLastUsedDate and kMDItemUsedDates broken? "ls -u" seems to work
Hi,
It sure seems that are kMDItemLastUsedDate and kMDItemUsedDates are broken ...
or that I don't know the secret incantation to get Mac OS X 10.6.2 to start updating them.
Today is 2010-02-03. If I do:
(in Terminal)
cat techsheet.htm
and then:
ls -u techsheet.htm
I see:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 sieler staff 371 Feb 3 15:19 techsheet.htm
...which is correct.
If I now do: mdls techsheet.htm I see:
kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2008-08-23 14:10:30 -0700
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2008-08-23 14:10:30 -0700
kMDItemContentType = "public.html"
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
"public.html",
"public.text",
"public.data",
"public.item",
"public.content"
kMDItemDisplayName = "techsheet.htm"
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2008-08-23 14:10:30 -0700
kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2008-08-23 14:10:30 -0700
kMDItemFSCreatorCode = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery = 0
kMDItemFSLabel = 0
kMDItemFSName = "techsheet.htm"
kMDItemFSNodeCount = 0
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 503
kMDItemFSSize = 371
kMDItemFSTypeCode = ""
kMDItemKind = "HTML document"
kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2008-08-23 14:10:30 -0700
kMDItemTitle = "techsheet.jpg (image)"
kMDItemUsedDates = (
"2008-08-23 00:00:00 -0700"
...showing incorrect dates for both kMDItemLastUsedDate and kMDItemUsedDates.
I've seen one or two Linux systems where the system manager can enable or disable
the keeping of last-access dates, but this setup seems very unusual...because the "ls"
command correctly reports the date, but "mdls" isn't.
Any suggestions appreciated, thanks.
I discovered this when I started to try to get my Finder windows to display a
last-access (aka "last used" aka "last opened" date column.
thanks,
Stan
Er,
make that: ls -lu techsheet.htm
(sorry)
Stan
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