Update date of translated Item

Question

my content Area is Multi language: french and English. When I translated an item the updated date is update to date of day even on my original item. So New icon is display because I translate an item.
Is it Possible to update only the date of the Translated Item ?

Answer 1

ExtendScript doesn't currently allow direct access to that item property on the project side unfortunately. What you may be able to do is create a .txt document via script that lists all your project assets with the current modified date in a array style layout with item id's used as variable names.
var projItem1 = ["Mon", "Jan", "31", "12:57:20"];
var projItem20 = ["Sun", "Mar", "5", "3:10:00"];
var projItem9 = ["Wed", "Jun", "10", "1:24:11"];
...and so on.
To do that you would need to loop through all items checking for the item types you want (stills, audio, video, etc...). Then saving their id. Then take the .modified values of each file and split the value into an array using the .split(" ") method. So "Mon Jan 30 2012 10:43:30 GMT-0800" would basically get broken down into separate array items like so...
var myItem = app.project.item(1).file.modified;
var miSplit = myItem.split(" ");
//You can  now access each section of the modified date by the array index number.
alert(miSplit[0] + " " + miSplit[1] + " " + miSplit[2] + " " + miSplit[4]);
You would then have to combine all the info into a single string that would get written to your document. Something like...
"var projItem" + myItemID + " = [\"" + miSplit[0] + "\", \"" + miSplit[1] + "\", \"" +miSplit[2] + "\", \"" + miSplit[4] + "\"];";
You would then run a script to check this database up against the current modified values of the items and if they differ, you can tell if they are newer or not. I'm generalizing this whole description of course, in reality it would be a chore to script out, but not impossible though.